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You might be noticing that Curvage is missing a lot of stuff. It's not just you!

Curvage database was deleted by the previous owner. The name Curvage has been passed on and the web site was resurrected! Currently there are thousands of people working to rebuild Curvage to it's former glory.

We've got a lot of the boards that are familiar to you and also some new features like video chat and a special image server that keeps files cached.

What does this mean for you?

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We look forward to seeing you on the inside.

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How did this happen? Why did this happen?

The previous owner has been pretty silent about specifics. However, please understand that if there is a website full of millions of copyright photos strewn out across millions of posts from years of service; It would be very difficult to untangle the mess in order to satisfy the demands of a law suit.

Lets keep copyright material off this site!

Go rebuild, go enjoy!

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Curvy women are fantastic!

J

does this mean the copyright policy has changed from the original curvage to some new policy?

the old policy was as far as I can recall, as long as no one specifically complains you can post 1or2 copyright images as sort of a preview, full video/sets of things were removed by moderators when noticed even if no one complained.

is the new policy to avoid anything copyright at all no matter how small and fair and unlikely to be upsetting the usage might be? a lot of the megathreads on curvage.org were of pornstars, and contained 1or2 clearly copyright images here and there, but since it was only 0.01% of what could be posted it was generally tolerated? are those megathread's for people like kerry marie and carmella bing and such no longer allowed at all no matter how tame?

speaking of rules and policies are they listed anywhere? I didn't see any when I signed up, or in any sticky threads..

the old curvage.org used to allow fully hardcore imagery and video, whereas I know your other site does not, will that policy be changing? or staying as it was? (things can be as pornographic as you want as long as they're labeled)

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is the new policy to avoid anything copyright at all no matter how small and fair and unlikely to be upsetting the usage might be?

As far as copyright law is concerned the burden of proof for fair usage is on the defendant, not the claimant. When you make a claim of fair usage, you establish that you did in fact use copyright material without consent. The original post makes it pretty damn clear that there is to be no copyrighted material. Chances are the owners simply don't have the legal fund to defend against a copyright claim. I am not sure why you would try to find colour in such a clear black and white statement.

In all honesty, you would have a pretty hard time claiming fair usage on this site, photos are pornographic in nature, as is the site. No real basis for fair usage, and no, saying "check out this fatty" on a fetish forum is not commentary. Sharing 1 or sharing 30 photos is the same difference, except that when you share 30 you infringe on 30 copyrights. Each photo is a copyrighted item, thus you infringe on a copyright each time you post a photo, not only if you post the whole set. Further curvage then infringes for each time the photo is viewed.

See the spiral?

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except rune that nothing about what you said is a reasonable conclusion...

the old curvage allowed some minor instances of copyright items, furthermore, the current curvage is FULL of minor instances of copyright toe stepping and the moderators are not doing anything about it... so I'm just interested in knowing exactly what all the rules are, and if those rules have changed and if they have changed how so.

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Before you go bashing the mods (believe it or not, we do read these), you have to remember something...

THIS IS NOT THE OLD CURVAGE.

Everyone here (contributors, mods, creepers) are working to get this place up and running. I will offer these two answers to your gripe.

A.) We are still experiencing growing pains and this place will have its "teething" issues...

B.)SuperJ707 runs the bus now, and he is the ultimate Supreme Court Justice. There might not be uniformity with the copyright issues. I don't know about SJ or any of the other mods, but I don't have time to go through thread/pic by thread/pic and decide it's level of copyright infringement.

Give everyone time, dude...

KFD

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except rune that nothing about what you said is a reasonable conclusion...

the old curvage allowed some minor instances of copyright items, furthermore, the current curvage is FULL of minor instances of copyright toe stepping and the moderators are not doing anything about it... so I'm just interested in knowing exactly what all the rules are, and if those rules have changed and if they have changed how so.

Funny you say that namad, being that I have 8 years (9 by the end of July) of IP/rights/asset management in both web development and game development, to my name. Chances are if you play video games, you've played a title I've worked on or contributed to. Even more so since my first couple of years were at EA. I started as a QA performing compliance and legal passes and have since become a Producer, so yes my conclusion is more then reasonable and based on experience. I've even earned the nick name of electric eye, which you will get if you listen to Judas Priest. I generally take a risk minimalist approach, but I also save the studio millions of dollars and push people to create something unique. 

Being that curvage went down because of a legal concern in the first place, I made a very fair conclusion of what curvage is trying to avoid with their zero copyright statement.

What's your experience or knowledge base on IP management?

Lets keep copyright material off this site!

So, what are the rules? No copyrighted material.

How have they changed? Well, no copyrighted material, at all.

Does that mean that it must be enforced RIGHT VERY NOW. No.

Will they when it comes up for some reason? Probably.

The old rules advocated copyright infringement with it's 2 photo unless a complaint policy. As soon as you step over that line you are already neck deep. When it comes to photos/images copyrights are pretty black and white. Since curvage (or any general forum) is usually not considered "a body of work" they carry little risk, as long as they make the statement that no copyrighted material is to be posted, and enforce/pay when a copyright owner informs them of infringement.

The other option is to take it to a court, and lots of people play that game too. Those people have a lot of money or some great IP lawyer at their side. Having gone through that process, I can tell you first hand it costs a lot of money. A game studio can absorb it, little community sites like this gets crushed under that kind of action. Hence why curvage went dark in the first place.

You might also notice that their really are no active moderators here at the moment. The site just came back up...

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  • Moderators

Yes, I noticed our shift schedule has been lacking lately. Normally I have weeknights 11PM - 7AM. That way I can still put in my 8+ hours at work every weekday as well.  ::)

We moderate out of the kindness of our hearts - it is a volunteer gig at the end of the day. We are on here when we can be and do the best job we can. We are not EA, as you have pointed out, but rather just a small community that sometimes is at the whim of its members. Just because a single moderator isn't on at 1AM doesn't mean the site is in shambles. That's why we ask everyone does their part and think about what they are posting before we have to play clean-up.

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Yes, I noticed our shift schedule has been lacking lately. Normally I have weeknights 11PM - 7AM. That way I can still put in my 8+ hours at work every weekday as well.  ::)

We moderate out of the kindness of our hearts - it is a volunteer gig at the end of the day. We are on here when we can be and do the best job we can. We are not EA, as you have pointed out, but rather just a small community that sometimes is at the whim of its members. Just because a single moderator isn't on at 1AM doesn't mean the site is in shambles. That's why we ask everyone does their part and think about what they are posting before we have to play clean-up.

Asking people to take responsibility for themselves?

God, this is just like Nazi Germany.

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I meant in regards to copyright policy, and that is, in all honesty, only based on what I've seen. Perhaps not the right phrasing for what I intended. What I meant was that the Mods have better things to do then run asset checks right now, and don't appear to be that active in IP enforcement.

Though, something was only done with this thread after I made that statement.

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I meant in regards to copyright policy, and that is, in all honesty, only based on what I've seen. Perhaps not the right phrasing for what I intended. What I meant was that the Mods have better things to do then run asset checks right now, and don't appear to be that active in IP enforcement.

Though, something was only done with this thread after I made that statement.

your conclusion is just confusing, because while yes, based on this one thread, and the one thread this thread spawned from... it makes sense...

but on curvage.org 1.0 99% of content was at very least a very minor copyright toe step, and curvage.org 2.0 isn't any different :-/ so I am a bit confused. I suppose I'm just going to continue posting things in the manner I would've on curvage.org 1.0 until a moderator tells me I've done something wrong, or until there's some sort of rules sticky guideline I end up reading.

I didn't mean to sound so offensive, I'm just confused, and I was trying to express that tone, the tone of a doubletake.

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