In France, viedemerde.fr (the French version of Fuck my
life) has aggregated thousands of daily posts from anonymous contributors about
their daily life. The website has published numerous books and comics using the
website content.
Lately, they have tried to sue for copyright infringement
any people releasing advertising or content more or less related to some of the
anecdotes. The website argued that the contributors are giving away their intellectual
property according to the utilization conditions.
The courts ruled that content could not be copyrighted
content at the stories are not “original” enough. The ruling did not speak to
the rights to strip the contributors of their intellectual property.
The users of such stories for commercial purposes still got
condemned for “parasiting” the activity of “vie de merde”
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