Professor Chaos posted:OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:GHEEEZZZZ...how many times do I need to tell the story! Yeah, there IS more to the story and I told it all not only here but in the featured topics and a couple of other threads/posts going on right now on this forum. I don't know why you would be surprised that someone took legal action...it is the way of the world these days. One more time: OGR received notice to take down two pictures from two members of this forum and the demand letter spelled out how much we needed to send them for the damages to their client. That is pretty much how this went down.
The operator of a board is not supposed to be liable for damages at all if it did not have knowledge of the infringement, promptly responds to a takedown request from the copyright owner, and meets the other requirements of the DMCA safe harbor statute [17 USC 512(c)] . . . that law was enacted so that board operators would not be liable for copyrighted material posted by users.
But I'm sure the whole story was more complex.
Yep...more complex for sure. The pictures were from years ago so the interpretation was that OGR should have known by the shear number and the length of time that these pictures should have been taken down. We do however have the option of coming back to the poster and suing them for any damages we have incurred which from what I understand.
