Because this isn't how copyright law works.
  • ohellidkEnglish
    95•5 months ago

    Good to know. I’ve just downloaded a bunch of them to repost. They’re not gonna brush this under a rug.

      • @affiliate@lemmy.world
        21•5 months ago

        but what if they scan the pictures with an AI made in australia? maybe it would be better to post them from new zealand so that they won’t be able to find you on a map

  • bacon_saber
    71•5 months ago

    Just in case for those skimming the headline, note the quotes used in it. The author does not claim to know whether or not the company is actually involved in filing these requests, though as he points out, it is plausible.

    Someone purporting to be United Healthcare is filing DMCA requests

    If it is really the health insurer filing these notices, it wildly oversteps any legal rights the company might have, but if there’s any company willing to preemptively breach the law and dare the other side to spend their limited resources trying to protect their rights it would be a health insurer.

  • Optional
    37•5 months ago

    An independent journalist posting a photo of Mangione with his family also received a DMCA request — from a lawyer claiming to represent a family member holding the copyright — even though the image was “originally posted on the campaign website of Maryland assemblymember Nino Mangione.” That site apparently deleted the image and turned around to threaten anyone using it now which is… not how fair use works. But at least this request can claim they have a “good faith” claim, though the system probably shouldn’t reward people for trying to retroactively claim rights after they try to memory-hole their internet history.

    lol