THEY’RE DOOMED 
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They’re all insane.
Earlier this year, one of my wife’s pieces on RedBubble was subjected to the auto-lawyers at Epic Games (who publish Fortnite), claiming art of a pickaxe belonged to them. She had to send RB a letter stating essentially that Epic is high as a goddamn kite, pickaxes have been around since the bronze age, and that no, they did not own that image, since she made it herself in a context absolutely outside of their game (which, I guess, uses a pickaxe?).
And these aren’t the only examples we’ve had to deal with.
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I participated in the collective log out on Monday. I´ll still be using tumblr, but definitively not as much as before, especially since some of my fav artists moved to greener pastures.
Its a damn shame.
Just kidding although it is a great film.
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I wonder how long ago some peon in Verizon’s data mines noticed this and was told to just tack on a whitelist mechanism to keep the filter away from certain areas(like the official post that provided the images tested) because that was vastly faster and easier than building an expert system that outperforms a Supreme Court Justice at recognizing porn; and the possibility of parties not on the whitelist reposting the images wasn’t considered(or was considered to be addressed by the department of overzealous DMCA takedowns)?
The images weren’t nuked on the official announcement, only on the repost; so some manual adjustment seems likely here.
A trifle surprising that they didn’t extend the whitelist mechanism to also allow images that were a hash or fingerprint match of images in whitelisted areas, since that would have stopped this sort of embarrassing test from working as readily(you’d have to modify the picture enough to break the fingerprint without altering the prurience, incrementally harder; but only incrementally).
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