E. Holt
New Member
- Jurisdiction
- Florida
Ok, so I'm gonna ask for legal advice here since I have absolutely no where to look or start on this,
In December of 2017 when I was still living in my old apartment in South Florida, I created an account with Tenor.com for their GIF keyboard feature to use for making my own custom reaction GIFs and stuff that I could download and use on my facebook among other social media sites.
I uploaded a GIF I had created from a video I had posted on one of my Youtube channels the year prior and tagged it with #nothing #bored and #whatididtoday. The GIF ended up being featured on the home page for the search term #nothing shortly after I uploaded it. A few months later Tenor was acquired by Google and the tags for #nothing had stayed the same, thus my image is usually the very first thing that ever pops up on any search for 'nothing' in the GIF keyboard that uses the Tenor platform including Twitter and many smartphones that have it installed. Since then this GIF has been shared over 123 thousand times and counting!!
I do not have a problem with my image being shared this many times, and this is NOT a case where I want compensation or royalties on it. I'm a graduated media major, I know enough that those kinds of cases are never winnable with my agreeing to the Tenor terms of service when I signed up and uploaded my GIF file to their platform-basically giving them permission to do what they want to do with it. What I don't know and what I do want is for Tenor to give its users more opportunity to be able to directly link to the GIF's original source. After all, since GIFs are just an internet file version image of a movie- pretty much any and every GIF you find is a media piece from something else. There is literally no way for any GIF on their website or app to be linked to it's original source and thus while my image GIF has been shared all over the internet- no one will be able to find the original video it's from and that's what could potentially make me income from my Youtube partnership on my main channel. I find this can be a case with multiple things featured on the Tenor website, it's one thing to give something exposure- it's another to not even have a way to give credit to the original.
What I would like to know is if there is any way I could get some sort of representation to the Tenor company on something like this and hopefully get them to agree to have a way to feature and link back to my original video- I think them doing this could probably help cover their butts on a bunch of other more legitimate copyright infringement cases. I'm just one individual and I have no way to get any sort of compensation for my particular image- but I'm sure there are bigger badder companies out there who would be more lenient to agree to this as well.
Any help or quotes?
Elle (I live in North Carolina now btw)
In December of 2017 when I was still living in my old apartment in South Florida, I created an account with Tenor.com for their GIF keyboard feature to use for making my own custom reaction GIFs and stuff that I could download and use on my facebook among other social media sites.
I uploaded a GIF I had created from a video I had posted on one of my Youtube channels the year prior and tagged it with #nothing #bored and #whatididtoday. The GIF ended up being featured on the home page for the search term #nothing shortly after I uploaded it. A few months later Tenor was acquired by Google and the tags for #nothing had stayed the same, thus my image is usually the very first thing that ever pops up on any search for 'nothing' in the GIF keyboard that uses the Tenor platform including Twitter and many smartphones that have it installed. Since then this GIF has been shared over 123 thousand times and counting!!
I do not have a problem with my image being shared this many times, and this is NOT a case where I want compensation or royalties on it. I'm a graduated media major, I know enough that those kinds of cases are never winnable with my agreeing to the Tenor terms of service when I signed up and uploaded my GIF file to their platform-basically giving them permission to do what they want to do with it. What I don't know and what I do want is for Tenor to give its users more opportunity to be able to directly link to the GIF's original source. After all, since GIFs are just an internet file version image of a movie- pretty much any and every GIF you find is a media piece from something else. There is literally no way for any GIF on their website or app to be linked to it's original source and thus while my image GIF has been shared all over the internet- no one will be able to find the original video it's from and that's what could potentially make me income from my Youtube partnership on my main channel. I find this can be a case with multiple things featured on the Tenor website, it's one thing to give something exposure- it's another to not even have a way to give credit to the original.
What I would like to know is if there is any way I could get some sort of representation to the Tenor company on something like this and hopefully get them to agree to have a way to feature and link back to my original video- I think them doing this could probably help cover their butts on a bunch of other more legitimate copyright infringement cases. I'm just one individual and I have no way to get any sort of compensation for my particular image- but I'm sure there are bigger badder companies out there who would be more lenient to agree to this as well.
Any help or quotes?
Elle (I live in North Carolina now btw)
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