You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Todaywe take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment.
Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
literally all you have to do is type in your e-mail address and click ‘submit’.
this is where countries of the EU currently stand. yes, this is real. no, it will not just go away. we need to make every vote count.
important so I’m reblogging, but @staff no you do not have a way to talk to someone regarding false/accidental takedowns or blog erasure. idk if you filter any email on a deleted account, but a ton of bloggers have lost their accounts due to illegitimate (or a compete lack of) reasons and y’all ignore any incoming emails regarding that.
most recent issue was a friend of mine who had her entire freaking account locked bc she had been reported for art theft. of her own art. like if users were allowed 2 seconds to talk to an actual person and not completely ignored, maybe this site wouldn’t be such a dumpster fire.
It’s less canonically possible than you might think.
Sure, in that show they can jump dimensions. But in this AU, dimensions cannot be so easily jumped. Doing so weakens the walls between them, so nobody in any dimension in this AU can or will do this willy-nilly, or else they’d leave entire realities in tattered messes.
So in this AU, it’s pretty canonically established that realities aren’t jumped. They can be glimpsed and perused if something has the power. Something with that power *could* hop across and back again, but there would be risks and consequences for it, so stuff generally doesn’t.
So yeah, we don’t do any crossovers in actual TAU canon for this reason, so you won’t see any fic or art for it on this blog, but you guys can always do this stuff and put it on the tag or on AO3.
please spread the word, and get in contactvia this websiteit is so easy to send a pre-worded email over and get things rolling. help us out!! we made it through the july vote, but it’s come back round super fast.
odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
Oðinn spake:
Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count’nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.
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