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What's different about this court decision

In effect, the court sets up a double standard: physical vs. digital. Zazzle is protected if users upload infringing images but not if customersdecide they want a copy of this image on a t-shirt or poster.
​Court Says DMCA Safe Harbors Disappear Once Infringing Images Are Printed On Physical Items ​ | Tech Dirt

The claim
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GYPI alleges that Zazzle has publicly displayed 41 paintings by Westmoreland or Erickson on its website, and that Zazzle has created consumer products bearing these images. It asserts claims for copyright infringement and seeks injunctive relief, statutory damages (or, in the alternative, actual damages and restitution), and attorney’s fees. 
Case 2:16-cv-04587-SVW-KS Document 81 Filed 05/01/17 ​

The Judgement: Greg Young Publishing, Inc. v. Zazzle, Inc., 2017 WL 2729584 (C.D. Cal. May 1, 2017)
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Like I said! not worth the paper it's written on or typed on a keyboard! You lose the right to any copyright if you share it on any social media site. Look at Facebooks acknowledgement clause! You have to be careful what ever you show. I'm not saying it's right! but like the song says "It's like that, it's just the way it is!" If anyone is daft enough to share, works of art on any social media site, before they have made enough money themselves out of it. Is a fool!

re. "You lose the right to any copyright if you share it on any social media site. " 
1) INCORRECT You never ever lose your copyright unless you sign it away e.g. in a licensing agreement. 
2) INCORRECT because Facebook allows and enables you to report Copyright Infringement. Have you not read Facebook's pages about how to tackle copyright infringement? 
https://www.facebook.com/help/325058084212425?ref=contextual 

I agree people need to be aware that if you post on certain sites that your photos may be shared beyond what you might intend - but that is not the same as losing your right to copyright. That's about people not reading the terms and conditions of use of the site properly.

What to do if you see copyright infringement on Facebook

​The new paragraph at section 1.3 reads as follows: “You grant the PayPal Group the worldwide right to use and depict your business name, trademarks and logos on our website and in our mobile and web applications for the purpose of displaying information about your business and its products and services.”

2. Non discouragement
We are amending section 4.4 (Non discouragement) to outline the standards that businesses must adopt at their points of sale in respect of their customers’ use of PayPal. Section 4.4 now reads as follows (with added/amended wording underlined):

​“4.4 Non discouragement. In representations to your customers or in public communications, you shall not mischaracterise or disparage PayPal as a payment method.

At all of your points of sale (in whatever form):
a. you shall not dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and
b. if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you shall treat PayPal’s payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered.

​PayPal does not encourage surcharging because it is a commercial practice that can penalise the consumer and create unnecessary confusion, friction and abandonment at checkout. You agree that you will only surcharge for the use of PayPal in compliance with any law applicable to you and not in excess of the surcharges that you apply for the use of other payment methods. You further agree that if you do surcharge a buyer, you, and not PayPal, will inform the buyer of the requested charge. PayPal has no liability to any buyer where you have failed to inform the buyer of any surcharge. You acknowledge that you could be committing a criminal offence if you fail to disclose any form of surcharge to a buyer.”

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