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[shadowkat]

Whoa...apparently livejournal has this nifty new feature called "share" that allows you to with one click of a button to copy someone's post on your journal and share it with your friends feed? Did you guys know about this? And you did not tell me? And is there a way of blocking it???

(joan was very nice and removed the copy of my post and just linked to it. She didn't realize what she'd done - she just pressed "share". Which is a facebook thing - you press "share" and it is shared with everyone in your friends feed on facebook.)

People? Friends of mine? Don't EVER do that with one of my posts. Please, please, don't do it. I may have to flock all my posts if that's done. Either that or retreat to DW and kill my lj account. I do NOT want my lj posts shared with Facebook, Tumblr or even LJ in this manner. No.

And I thought fan discussion boards were dicey...

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[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I knew that the "share" button sent a link, but I didn't realize it would repost.

And the button doesn't seem to appear on any of the friends-locked posts or LJ-coms, so apparently it's only a feature on public posts.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I may have to start flocking more, which means friending everyone?
And doing filters.

I now understand why so many people on my flist are flocking.

[shapinglight]

I of course had missed it, so thanks for bringing it my attention.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

They have absolutely no fucking idea about the culture of their English-language users, do they?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No, they really don't. I've noticed this is true with a lot of the former communist or currently communist countries - China is somewhat the same way. The concept of intellectual property and copyright law is completely foreign to them.

Russia and China are bitches to negotiate copyright agreements with. Had all sorts of problems with them when I was working in that field in the 1990s and early 00's. They just could not wrap their brain around the concept that someone owned written work or art for a period of time.
As a result, a lot of companies such as Time Warner would not license content to electronic databases that went to China or to Russia.

Copyright law is dicey. No one agrees. LOL!

As a former copyright specialist - this makes me crazy, also makes me think twice about posting essays publicly. Ugh.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

If you're interested - I posted the issue to fandom lawyers lj community and got some interesting responses.