r/lego • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '18

Mod Announcement Beware Copyright - Please don't post any copyright infringing content!!!

We got this note from Reddit Legal team, so please take note and adhere to reddit's rules!

Dear Moderators,

TL;DR: This is an official warning from Reddit that we are receiving too many copyright infringement notices about material posted to your community. We will be required to ban this community if you can't adequately address the problem.

First, some background.

  1. Redditors aren't allowed to submit material that infringes someone else's copyrights.
  2. We (the Reddit admins) are required by law to process notices from people who say that material on Reddit violates their copyrights. The process is described in the DMCA section of the Reddit User Agreement.
  3. The law also requires us to issue bans in cases of repeat infringement. Sometimes a repeat infringement problem is limited to just one user and we ban just that person. Other times the problem pervades a whole community and we ban the community.

This is our formal warning about repeat infringement in this community. Over the past three months we've had to remove material from the community in response to copyright notices 52 times. That's an unusually high number taking into account the community's size (359,785 subscribers).

Every community is different, but here are some general suggestions.

  • Consider whether your community's rules encourage or tolerate infringing content, and revise if necessary to be more clear.
  • Actively enforce your community's rules. If you need help, recruit more moderators to help.
  • Remove any existing infringing content from your community so Reddit doesn't get new notices about past content.

If you can't adequately address the problem, we'll have to ban the community.

Questions about this warning should be directed to legal@reddit.com with the subject line “DMCA Repeat Infringer Inquiry - r/lego”.

Sincerely, Reddit Legal

We want to see this community thrive, so let's not get shut down ;)

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u/balizar LBR associate Aug 21 '18

This seems like something worth being a sticky post. Our community needs to know that this is a problem.

Having been here for a while, I never would have guessed that the number of notices would be nearly that high! I know that as fans of Lego (and even as a retail employee) we all want to know what’s coming and how soon, but if it is between knowing what is coming out a few weeks in advance verses having a great community to talk to about our passions, I think the choice should be pretty obvious. If this means that we adopt new rules about leaks, which I have to guess is what the notices is about, then so be it. I’m here to talk about Lego, so let’s do just that.

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u/steve626 BRICKTATOR Aug 21 '18

We also had no idea of the number until today.