Digital rights are straightforward. They pertain to human rights. Digital rights live online and relate to your legal human rights.
Dignity, respect, equality, justice, as well as, consent all live as digital rights. As a result of how easy it is to create tortuous statements online, in addition, to the ease of creating an unstable, and unsafe environment online, the right to consent is a major issue.
"The right to restrict users from editing or saving your content; restrict or prevent users from sharing or forwarding your product or content; Restrict or prevent users from printing your content; Disallow users from creating screenshots or screengrabs of your content. Copyright education: Many people pay little attention to the copyright details of the content they own. DRM helps organizations clearly communicate what customers can and cannot do with their digital media, which in turn educates users about how copyright and intellectual property work." - Digital Guardian
Companies have exercised digital rights.
For example, rights have been enforced by companies such as Netflix, which blocks screengrabs, and Apple, which prevents music from being pirated. Platforms with "easy access to creation" tools and low levels of moderation lead to people paying little attention to copyright education and information about pirated content they are not allowed to use.
The right to fair usage is not a protective seal; in other words, if you pirate a piece of content from a user online, and do not ask permission, you have violated their digital rights. They have the right, to utilize any legal means available, to ensure their work, is protected.
My Own Experiences With Copyright Theft
When it comes to copyright there needs to be actual legal representation. Platforms such as YouTube don't have on-staff lawyers to review legitimate copyright claims.
In my own experience of providing YouTube legal with actual paperwork of my copyright (the physical Government papers you received with a stamp, not even the online portal records), YouTube allowed me to be exploited by allowing the violator to publish the private emails on Twitter, and his channel. For fear of my safety, I even had the police CC'ed on the emails (I have an open criminal harassment investigation on this company). This is not how copyright should work nobody should feel threatened and unsafe.
To further my point, below you will see every day works stolen of my property.
I have had my movies pirated on these platforms (Bullyish, Miss Roxie, The Trapper Trap), indie films that are not on any social media platform only on my website plastered, and I have even had art pieces stolen despite having legitimate copyright numbers.
Once you publish your work, you own the work. However, I went as far as to file with the copyright office in America to physically have a registration record and ownership rights more legitimately for purposes of, if a lawsuit was needed.
Despite providing YouTube with the paperwork that goes along with ownership and rights - YouTube denied claims. I would later find the person "investigating" the claims was working with the people harassing me, and off Google VPN, visiting my site from Kuala Lumpur. Not a lawyer, but a random employee of Google.
You could even see one small example of a photo pirated from my website, and NOT published anywhere else from the date of theft. Not only was my watermark on the lower right side removed, which clearly says Lillee Jean Productions, but the photo also says all rights reserved suggesting I do not want any of my Content to be stolen. The American company who stole this content should be held responsible.
In one last example, my digital artwork was stolen on the platform of X, YouTube, and more thanks to these people who for years have been harassing my family and I. I recently wrote an article on the abuse, and how I've taken action criminally for these occurrences.
As well as being championed by platforms not housing proper legal, and supplying these people with improper information themselves, below you'll see pretty alarming copyright violations. Not only is my signature on one of the art pieces, in the same breath I'm being violated and harassed. They even made videos that they were copyright-struck to create more buzz.
The ironic part is these very people do not want people to steal their artwork, thus proving this ruse is all a sham to unethically confuse viewers.
Further examples of theft - my site policy is additionally being violated by platforms such as YouTube. They're condoning pirating on insane levels. As a result, these people harassing me (they call themselves the Lillee Jean Clone Cult) utilizing that very platform are "victims" of "false" copyright claims, despite each claim being legitimate. They harass me, they become victims - so becomes the cycle of these internet people. The photos had my watermark removed on the lower right corner.
To date, I have filed FBI Ic3 complaints and opened up police reports on threats to my life, and explicit deepfakes being made of me.
Fair Usage Debate
The Fair Use Doctrine of copyright law suggests that there is no copyright violation when a portion of a work is commentary or criticism of that work. People live in a world where you do not have rights, they have rights.
You can never "strike" them or "silence" them. Despite right being right - a copyright violation is had, these people put their emotions into pieces they stole. They act like THEY own your work. Why? They just paid for the following with your image: a cover editor, a video editor, a voice synthesizer, and a scriptwriter. They lose money when you rightfully get the stolen content pulled - and in return rage on the internet, despite the fact they stole your work, and you won't make a dime off of it.
As you can see from rights and permissions above, only myself, and my company, own the rights to these pictures, these drawings, and these works. Yet, they are nonstop being pirated. Fair usage like with musicians and specific cords, or movies, follows the same route. You can't use it. My United States of America copyright is being violated non-stop.
People are extremely misinformed and normally use works maliciously or degradingly.
It doesn't help that these platforms do not have legitimate legal counsel as well. These corporations are being misguided. It is also worth mentioning these companies, of these YouTube channels are unethically confusing viewers with under-researched content, to make a profit and in some cases, cause sadistic pain to victims such as myself. In one instance, a 40-second clip of my acting demo reel was utilized, which had a watermark that was mechanically and intentionally removed, and the video was put as "Creative Commons licensing", despite me, the actual rights holder, not permitting that. These are illegal crimes.
How This Effects Artists
Anyone out there who is an artist should be concerned about how platforms are handling your copyright. They do NOT have your best interest - they encourage the theft for their own A.I. offshoots, and for profit in some cases.
Artwork especially, in a digital age where artificial intelligence is being used and pirated non-stop needs to be looked at closely, and legally. Not to protect the pirates, to protect the artists. The artists who DO indeed have rights - they're being silenced.
If you think about fair usage and think it's OK, and you happen to be an artist whether that be somebody who is an actor or physically painting or making a movie or a musician I want you to think.
Think about if your new chorus you created was stolen and used in someone's YouTube/Twitch gameplay. You earn no royalties. You earn nothing. Let's say it's used in a game you don't want your music, or, your artwork (maybe it's the profile picture) to be marketed next to. You'd feel very different.
These people online mainly steal other people's content(s) to do the following:
They have no original thoughts - so they steal content.
They profit off of the pieces through Twitch, YouTube, and X.
Use in A.I. to profit off of voice, image, and video likeness.
To create pain and destruction for people they deem "terrible".
WE SEEK TO EDUCATE AND ADVOCATE.
by Lillee Jean Trueman
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