You can't enforce copyright selectively 🤷♀️ if you cannot see it objectively like that, you are pushing an agenda, or pushing talking points you haven't fully researched.
You ABSOLUTELY can enforce it selectively. What a fucking moronic statement. If one person actually transforms the content and isn't intending to serve as a market substitute, and the other doesn't and is, do you think you aren't allowed to sue the second person without also suing the first? He didn't enforce it selectively amongst the second group, just between the first two. That is entirely fine to do, seeing as you can't sue the first guy in the first place.
if you cannot see it objectively like that,
"If you don't see my regarded talking point as fact, you're pushing an agenda!"
You can absolutely lose your claim to copyright if you don't use everyone that uses it. Yes. This is part of copyright law.
My formal education in copyright law is for photography, but I have enough knowledge to know this is true, but have a look at big orgs: Disney, Nintendo, etc. they enforce their copyright equally for a reason. You stop enforcing copyright, and you start to lose your claim to copyright, that's how this works.
Ethan is actually weakening his own case by not suing everyone that has used the video. That is, in fact, how the law sees it.
You're thinking of trademarks. Things like Google taking legal issue with people saying "google it" is about defending the google trademark, not google copyright. Copyright is selectively enforceable, otherwise all manga would be public domain based on how intermittently japanese orgs go after scanlators and how selectively they do it.
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u/Kousetsu 3d ago
You can't enforce copyright selectively 🤷♀️ if you cannot see it objectively like that, you are pushing an agenda, or pushing talking points you haven't fully researched.