As you mentioned section d, it basically just says that it’s understood and ‘assumed’ that you have the correct licenses to be able to grant a perpetual non-exclusive license to the company itself. Fair use does not grant you this permission and thus, it is no longer valid.
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Even if fair use did apply, I do wonder how do you gain access to that copyrighted content in a fair and legal way?
You couldn’t use exploits, that is breaking the rules.
You couldn’t ask for permission, you would had just gained a licence.
You couldn’t use a leaked version, that’s not fair and you’ve gained access via a 3rd party.
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One of my linked posts I showed some definitions of fair use.
In the majority of cases, fair use only applies for commentative (not a word ik) and educational purposes.
Regardless if your use for said asset on Roblox is for the above purpose, fair use won’t apply simply because of the license we grant Roblox when we upload to their platform.
Fair use is basically a “non-license”. It doesn’t grant you any permissions other than to use the IP for very specific reasons. As such you don’t really need to get permission to use something in a ‘fair use’ manner. But if you violate that and commercialize it or whatever, there will probably be legal repercussions.
Fair Use operates on a case by case basis. Here’s the page for it on copyright.gov
Refer to my original message. I was explicit about mentioning if fair use did apply to Roblox as a platform (thus excluding this licence agreement when content creator upload UGC to Roblox)
Yep! I totally understand that. A little extra in depth explanation can never hurt for anyone who may happen by this thread and be curious about fair use.
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The audio I sent to be taken down is still up. I haven’t been emailed about it being removed or anything and I’ve asked you guys to remove the audio twice. It’s been a few weeks since I asked for the audio to be removed.
Manually? Are they individually visiting, checking the name, and deleting the asset for each individual asset one at a time? Feel bad for whoever has to deal with such a task…
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I wish that would have been implied then. Usually Roblox gets back to me relatively quickly. I understand though.
I mean, they are getting paid to do it. I wouldn’t complain too much if that’s literally your job description and you know what you are getting into.
Sure they get paid and knew what to expect beforehand, but it doesn’t make it any less tedious to go through.
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I also requested some of my assets to be removed, and it’s been weeks. I understand it’s a small department, however if it’s going to be such a long response time, can you be punished for these assets before they get deleted?
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Depends if a DMCA takedown is sent before Roblox has removed the infringed upon asset. While I understand it’s still putting your account at risk, if you haven’t been moderated yet for that particular asset then it’s safe to assume the copyright holder won’t be reaching out to Roblox anytime soon.
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Use relevant Platform Feedback topics to discuss on a feature to remove assets, not here.
It should be way easier for developers to take down their own content in a case such as this. Having to email Roblox with hundreds of links to remove is simply not efficient.
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I’m assuming your point is sarcastic. If so, what point are you trying to make?
I sent an email to get IP Content removed on the 22nd of March, 24 days ago. Action still hasn’t been taken. How long can we expect until content we uploaded and requested to be removed from the site actually gets removed?
Can we get an actual response? I don’t want to be hung on a thread with the slightest inkling that DMCA’s are still being handed out and we aren’t being told anything about the progress or what is effective.
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I got a (automated) response after a few minutes, saying that the content i provided was added to a queue of over 9 million, if you didn’t get this i recommend resending your email.
This is an automated message to notify you that your request has been received and your ticket number is 9051952. We’ll follow-up with you further as soon as possible.
Roblox
You misinterpreted that email response. That’s just your ticket number, i.e. the # of request that Roblox’s support system received. Everyone gets this automated response when they sent in a ticket, it does not mean your assets were added to a queue yet.
Who decides the legitimacy of notices and
counternotices?
Hello. I was wondering with the copyright rules, would this mean the Hilton Hotels group is at risk of being taken down?
Thank you!