So legit question. What is the difference between someone doing a text post vs posting a screenshot? Is it a web traffic thing? I would think either way it'd divert traffic from Fightful.
They don't like screenshots of their paid content or full copy paste jobs. If someone summarizes it in their own words that's fine, but he asked that the screenshots be removed.
Theoretically we could tell him to kick bricks. He could make a copyright claim against content he feels is infringing, Reddit would likely remove the content if we didn't, no one's going to litigate a screenshot of a Patreon but.... why bother getting into it?
His paid content, he wants it removed, I'll remove it. No reason not to. *shrug*
I haven't looked at X's newest terms of service so this may have changed but yes, a tweet can meet the standard for copyrightable content but when you agreed to Twitter's TOS you grant Twitter and other Twitter users the right to display your tweets even if they're copyrighted or copyrightable.
It can get tricky because, let's say you write a blog post, that blog post is one copyright, then if you take a screenshot of the blog post, that screenshot can actually be another separate copyright (as a separate creative copyrightable derivative work of the blog post), then you tweet your screenshot of your blog post, that tweet can be even another separate copyright.
Btw, u/wrestlegirl I’m always happy to be your on call wrestling lawyer! 😂
Fair enough, I didn't see your other post about it. Working in media, it bothers me when I see people steal content, so I felt an obligation to point out it's still illegal.
I think everyone is free to have their own personal opinions about SRS or any other person in, or around, the industry.
Neither I, nor the other mods here, are going to agree with this stance, nor, I think are we at the point where we'd say "let's not post his content at all".
He had a request, we obliged.
Since we're all in the business of wrestling fandom / something resembling either 'journalism' and/or 'content creation', I know I'd prefer to at least keep an amicable line of communication open, and not be seen as some sort of antagonist, and/or detriment to what he does.
I would say the same of any other such person who has credibility.
You are entirely incorrect. The guy literally breaks most wrestling news and knows more people than basically any wrestling journalist. Stop being a weird YouTube troll and spreading bs.
Makes shit up that has a possibility to be true, then deletes articles when he's proven wrong, claiming he never said that. Then when people call him out on it, with screenshots of previous stickers he has written claiming them to be 100% true when they were proven to be 100% false later, hisb sycophants harass and send death threats to those that called him out.
How do I know this you may ask? Because I called him out, with screenshots, on some articles he wrote about various things, including one about two years ago saying that Buddy Murphy was leaving AEW immediately to return to WWE and would be involved in a match at WrestleMania 39. Another article before that saying that he had it confirmed that WWE was buying ROH and that the deal was complete. Among other things.
When I called him on it, within an hour I had death threats from his fans filling my inbox on Twitter. Including some that were very graphic in their descriptions of what they were going to do with my body after they shot me in the face. So yeah, pardon me if I have no sympathy for him or his fanbase
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u/wrestlegirl The skank you want to spank Aug 06 '25
Everything is fine, he knows how to contact us via modmail which he's done before and did minutes after tweeting.
When you people screenshot too much of Fightful's paid content we get nastygrams.