Banning gifs/memes in Slack and emails?
My company’s Legal Dept just issued an edict saying that we can no longer use any potentially copyrighted material for *internal* Slacks or email messages, citing legal risk. Fair use, anyone? The ‘team communication’ use case is clearly not meant to deprive a copyright holder of commercial benefit. Anyone else dealing with this insanity, or is this just one of the perks of working for a 110-year-old company? (TC: 3yrs ex/$115k)
This is outrageous. You should get a group together to complain.
That’s what I’m doing!
Are you in europe?
Nope. Midwest.
What sort of heathens ban memes???
The EU
Touché.
Fair use does not apply in this situation. Most people misunderstand the fair use exception to copyright laws (non-profit educational purposes, criticism and comment, parody, scholarship and research) - what was allowed when you were in university is not allowed in a commercial setting...
You sound fun at a party /s
It's definitely a perk of a 110-year-old company We just started using Microsoft Teams... And we had to do it behind IT's back 😅
Your Cybersecurity division must suuuuuuck if nobody noticed that!
Don't worry about it, work on low TC
It's good for Midwest
That's true 👌
Why do you think you understand risk and IP law better than insurance company lawyers that specialize in that area of the law?
This appears to have come from from 1-2 attorney’s that have zero IP specialization. But that’s a structural problem. To your point, that was the pourpose of this post: if no one else is doing it, I guarantee my company isn’t somehow being prescient, and beating the rest of the industry to a specific conclusion…
At least you get to use Slack. Amazon uses Chime, which doesn’t have giphy
If blind had GIPHY 👀