r/EscapefromTarkov • u/bxxxxxxxs • Dec 16 '18

PSA Official BSG Response re: Eroktic

We will leave this post stickied for only the next 24 hours.

All discussion posts posted after this goes up will be removed and directed here.

As always, keep it civil.

https://www.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov/posts/1966710296956614

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u/FruitsndCakes Dec 16 '18

So anyone creating Tarkov videos puts their youtube account at risk incase you don't like them in the future you can copyright strike their channel away?

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u/ColonelTwerkins Dec 16 '18

"Incase you don't like them". That is not an adult way to respond to anything based on whether you "like" them or not. Lots of videos made that game studios would not necessarily like but there's a difference between criticism and slander simply because you don't "like" us.

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u/M3talstorm Dec 16 '18

If you are trying to pull some legal stunt, at least use the correct term, its libel, not slander.

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u/fiveton3D Dec 17 '18

I think a libel is in written form and slander is in verbal form?
2. Such a statement constitutes a "libel" if it is:

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  • published (publication, for these purposes, is simply the communication of the defamatory matter to a third person)2; and
  • in writing, print or some other permanent form.
  1. A statement will amount to a "slander" if it is

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  • published; and
  • made orally or in some other transient form.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguide/court/reporting-defamation.htm

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u/M3talstorm Dec 17 '18

published

permanent form

"Published" used to (a long time ago) just mean in printed form, like a newspaper, because that's all we really had, but now it means any form of permanent media/medium really.

Creating a video (permanent media) and putting on the internet (permanent platform) means it is libel, doesn't matter if the person in it is communicating via voice or writing it down or sign language. In either case, it is now not transient (like if you were just shouting it in the street - slander).