Memy i pasty. Prawa autorskie do utworów publikowanych na forach obrazkowych
Memes and copypastas. Copyrights over works published on image-boards

Summary/Abstract: The popularity of image forums (so-called imageboards or chans) is growing on the Internet. These forums are distinguished by the mechanic and subculture aimed at anonymisation of users, encapsulation of the community and providing evanescence of published content. All these factors permanently prevent or substantially restrain a possibility of establishing the authorship of works that were published for the first time on chans. Present article is an attempt to explain to what extent works published on chans are subject of protection of the law and to what extent further use of these works is licit. The author considers the following three conceptions. Firstly, it can be assumed that those works all fully protected by law and the free use is inadmissible. Secondly, it is also justifiable to treat those works as orphan works or abandoned works. It can be finally assumed that works published on chans were released under a license similar to the Creative Commons license.

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