About Copyrights

This is only a guideline, how you can possible avoid copyright infringement, but that is not guaranteed. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL TEXT and absolutely not binding as it stands.  You must inspect your local laws according copyright infringement. Favor Company Inc. takes copyright infringements very seriously and will remove all infringing content as stated in Terms of Service.

 It is copyrights holders and neighboring rights holders exclusive right to determined of the works under copyright. For example economically such as the right to produce permanent copies of the work or perform copyrighted work, or to make derivative works. Even though copyright holder has given somebody permission to use her work (licensed it), she always has to be credited for the work and licensees must use her work respectfully as needed.


This is the favorable way to get started:

Create something unique and new. If you have loads of great ideas Favor is a magnificent platform for you to make those ideas real and visible for others and even earn some money for it. Remember that copyright does not protect ideas, only the form of the work. Almost everybody has the ability to copy/paste, but Favor is not the right place for that. Favor builds upon this one great, but simple, idea of rewarding the creator of the work. If you are not the creator or you do not own rights for that work you are planning to upload please do not do that.

If you use copyrighted content without proper permission, it is most likely removed from Favor and you may face some legal consequences. If you publish someones content in Favor you will not do favor to anybody, you will just do a disservice for yourself!

Here is some questions from our users. They may help you to learn what is copyright infringement.

Hi,
I bought this AWESOME Lady Gaga song from the online store, and I want to publish it here! Is it okay? Is it the same thing as I buy CD from the store that I can transfer it forward??

Dear User, please Don’t do that. Lady Gaga & co. would get really angry and we don't want that! It's the copyright holders exclusive right to transmit any content to network and publish it. Even if you bought that song from online store you have no rights to publish it at the Service.

What's up??
Last summer I went to this great music festival and used my phones camera to record performance of my favorite band! May I publish it?

Dear User, performing artists perform is also protected by Copyright Act. These rights are called neighboring rights. So you may NOT publish that kind of content without asking permission from the Artist and those who have made the content or who owns the rights to the content, for example composer, lyricist and producer.

LOL,
I come up with this great and unique dance routine for Madonnas Like a Virgin may i publish it? This is great, i have made my own music video! So excited!!

Dear User, I am sorry to tell you that you may not publish that content in the service. You must ask permission from those who owns the copyright for Like a Virgin. All the parts of Content has to be made by you, or you have to have permission from all creators for publishing.

Ps. If you know Madonna please ask her to contact us??

Hei,
Me and my friends made this funny video, when we pranked my sister! She got so scared that she peed in her pants! Hilarious! I wanna share this video with the whole world! May I publish it?

Dear User, I bet that was funny, but if your Content includes people who are objectively recognisable you must ask permission for publishing from them (this includes your sister)!

Hello,
Me and my friends made this great song and music video for that. Is there any copyright issues that I need to take care of?

Dear User, great that you have created something on your own and been creative! Good for you! You must ask everybody who has been making the song and music video permission to publish it in the Service! And remember also grant them for it! For example you can create a Favor profile for the group instead of publishing the video under your personal profile.

Greetings from Lapland.
My friends friend took awesome picture of me with reindeers! I am sure that I can publish it as a favor, I already put it to the Diaspora. Right?

Dear User, you must recognize that the photographer is the copyright holder or the neighboring rights holder of the photo! You must ask permission from the photographer to publish that photo, even if it's photo of yourself. Especially here in Favor, where the money is involved.

Ciao!
I have no idea what name I would pick up as my UserName. Is it okay to use CocaCola, because it  is my all time favorite beverage?

Dear User, Please don't use anybodies protected trademark. Make up your own special name that every Favor user will identify as you. That will help your (future) fans to find you! Favor Company Inc. will reserve the right to remove your UserName if it offends somebodies already existing trademark! Also make sure, that you have the legal right to use the picture that you pick as your profile picture.

OMG,
I just started to use Favor and i noticed that somebody has published my copyrighted content, what can i do?

Dear User, we are truly sorry that this has happened to you. We will not accept any kind of illegal actions in Favor and we take copyright issues very seriously. Look Terms of Service section 8 for more information .

Hejdå,
I don't want to publish my content with all rights reserved, what other options do i have?

You have many options. The strictest one is "all rights reserved" which gives other only permission to watch and experience your Content (and to make Return the Favors as well). If you want to give to other users possibility to gain something more from your Content you may want to choose one of the Creative Commons licenses! You will retain copyright, but you may also use CC licenses to give other users permission to use your Content within the limits of copyright laws and the licence that you choose! Check out more about the licence options creativecommons.org. This license will not reduce your copyright.

Little bit about linking

It is controversial is linking seen as exclusive right as copyright owner. Hyperlinks are most likely seen as addresses and it is most likely alright to place this kind of link. Placing Inlinelinks in the other hand are seen as exclusive right of the copyright holder.

More Info About Licensing 

If you have done something unique and new, your content  is most likely protected by Copyright Acts. Copyright holder has exclusive right to determined of the work and benefit from it financially. The strongest protection is provided under the copyright acts. It’s referred as “all rights reserved” and gives all exclusive rights to the creator.

Instead of normal “all rights reserved” you can license your work and give to other users permission to use your content within “some rights reserved” license terms. If you choose free licensing that does not mean waiving the principles of copyright. Free licensees also starts from the assumption that the creators have the exclusive right to disposed to their work and also make this commercial exploitations subject to their permission. If you are unsure how licensing works "all rights reserved" is the safest option for you to get started. 

Creative Commons is the most notable project relating to freer license conditions. This can contain variations from copying, distributing, editing and remixing to building upon your content at least non-commercially.

Licenses give people right to use your content various ways from right to share it with others to right to built upon it, and almost everything between them. By choosing between different licenses, you can determinate how others can use your content, the extent of these rights depends on the content of the free license conditions selected.

You should read more about Creative Commons licenses from here and here ("suomeksi").
 
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Dear Partajaska,

When using work licensed under CC-BY you must refer to license in reasonable means. If you use work without marking the license you may end up breaking license terms.  When publishing in Favor you can choose the CC license from menu available in the editor. The CC mark is made visible automatically when you choose this option.

The CC-BY license does not restrict the creators moral rights so they must always be respected when using some one else’s work under this license. Content of copyright may vary from jurisdiction to other so be sure to check your country’s legislation.

Creative Commons offers you multiply ways to attribute the original creator of the work. The simplest way is to use text in which you tell all the needed information related to your publication. This can consider your name, name of the original work, the creator of the original work and so on. It is considered as good manner to link to CC license you are using and to original work and it’s creator when possible. More about marking your work and attributing the original creator you can find from the Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licenses http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/.

License terms in non-commercial licenses forbid any uses primary intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. Breaking of the license terms of CC-BY will lead to termination of the right to use the work. You may even end up breaking the copyright. There is no simple way to say when use of the work is against license terms. Every case must be studied individually.

One of the reasons publishing in Favor, beside that it is best place to be, is to gain Favor Value to Favor Wallet or Favor Revenue to Payout Account. Favor Value that is directed to Favor Wallet can only be used inside the service. You cannot get it to your real life bank account. This is why it cannot be considered as a commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

Case is bit different when Favor Revenue goes to your Payout Account. This earned Favor Value will eventually end up to users real life bank accounts. This may be considered as a commercial advantage or monetary compensation. When you license your work under non-commercial CC license it will not affect to your own right to make profit with your work. There is no problem to license your own work under non-commercial license in Favor.

In the case of derivative work the rightholders has the right to decide is the use of the work is commercial or non-commercial. In unclear case we recommend you to contact the creator or to use work that can be commercially used.
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In uncertain case it is impossible to say for sure beforehand what kind of use can be seen as commercial and what as non-commercial. Every case must be studied individually and finally it is up to the creator to define the nature of the use and it’s consequences. Remember that in case of violation of CC license your right to use the work will be terminated and you can even end up being liable for copyright infringement.

The work you linked is licensed under CC BY-NC-NC license. This license forbids the commercial use of work but allows non-commercial use. It isn't clear what kind of use the creator has ment as commercial or as non-commercial. Using the work without confirming this from the creator is basically taking a risk. It may be OK or then it isn’t. If it’s OK nothing will happen and you will have great piece of art in your use, but in worst case scenario you may even end up to face a lawsuit. It is up to dear Mr. Taneli Arponen to decide if he sees use of his work in Favor as commercial or non-commercial. We recommend you to take contact to him and kindly ask this.
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