hm. I read some of the reblog comments your post received, including the comment about someone seeing an image takedown notice in the middle of a gif set.
Hard to say what any of this means right now beyond the availability of the tumblr support email address to report copyright violations.
I suspect that the parent companies of the fandoms I'm most active in see their fans as useful (free/viral marketing) but this does mean that tumblr posts of, say, unofficially leaked bioware marketing surveys could be targeted for take down, which has already happened on other websites. (Of course, if I worked as one of bioware's marketing/user research team members, I would want the ability to get such image posts removed, but this steps into a very different, complex matter about what "journalism" means in the web 2.0 age).
Anyhow, image takedowns could be as a potential slippery slope, but not clear yet what is going on. I guess what happens next is up to Tumblr's and Yahoo's leadership ... or complex redefinitions of 'fair use" in the digital age.
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Hard to say what any of this means right now beyond the availability of the tumblr support email address to report copyright violations.
I suspect that the parent companies of the fandoms I'm most active in see their fans as useful (free/viral marketing) but this does mean that tumblr posts of, say, unofficially leaked bioware marketing surveys could be targeted for take down, which has already happened on other websites. (Of course, if I worked as one of bioware's marketing/user research team members, I would want the ability to get such image posts removed, but this steps into a very different, complex matter about what "journalism" means in the web 2.0 age).
Anyhow, image takedowns could be as a potential slippery slope, but not clear yet what is going on. I guess what happens next is up to Tumblr's and Yahoo's leadership ... or complex redefinitions of 'fair use" in the digital age.
Wait and see?