Flickr seeks to end Copyleft trolling

[ergophobe]

Fascinating read from Cory Doctorow.

Short version - if you get an extortionate letter from an copyleft troll claiming you flubbed the Creative Commons Attribution string, you can now rat them out to Flickr and get them banned.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/

Back in 2021, I got hit by Pixsy on behalf of a photographer named Nenad Stojkovic... There was just one problem: I hadn't flubbed the attribution string. I helped with the launch of Creative Commons. I was CC's first European director.

Jones also falsely claimed that naming the employees who'd threatened me violated the GDPR, which is extremely on-brand for this whole mess. While I don't claim to be the world's greatest expert on GDPR, I did lobby in Brussels for it, and I do have German specialist lawyers on tap who are happy to explain that Jones's threat is absolute nonsense.

down the rabbit hole with some of the things he links to
https://doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats-5dfc54558f2c

Finally, to your grievance that your employees shouldn't be subjected to "vitriol" for their role in this unethical operation: I disagree... Criticizing a senior executive for their professional conduct by name is not "vitriol" — it is a standard way of holding powerful people to account for their professional activities.

Go Cory!!!