As many of you know who access this site, or follow me on social media, a few weeks ago I had a set of my Darktable dtStyle presets suspended and taken down by the hosting company. Without warning I was told that I had a copyright claim against me and they would be deleted.
Of course, the first thing I did was file a counter-action against this shock decision. After numerous emails and form filling, the case has been dropped, and rightly so!
All my recipes and colour presets are for Nikon, Fuji, Darktable and anything else that I share I designed by myself, and shared as public domain for anyone to use as they want. All I ask for in return in acknowledgment if they are being used.
The company in question was Mega, a secure cloud storage site that I have used for over a decade. I have never had any issues with them before, but apparently they were contacted by a user who tried to claim copyright over the set of presets.
I find it highly frustrating that someone can do this, and they take action without first consulting you (both the person who filed the infringement case and Mega!). I understand mistakes are made, and the situation was resolved within 10 days, however, things like this should not happen.
Going forward I have now changed the links affected to use Google Drive, and I am looking for other alternatives for the future. So a note to other content creators, please fight back any false claims against yourself!
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Hey Mark, that must’ve been scary when you first heard it. These days I mostly park my LUTs on itch.io – yeah, technically a game-sharing platform, but you can throw other stuff on there too. The nice bit? You can offer downloads either for free or set a price, basically turning it into your own little online shop – or just a freebie counter, if that’s your style. File size limits aren’t huge, but for LUTs and this kind of thing you really don’t need more. The whole point is to make them safely available to your audience – and itch.io nails that. Just a tip, of course, Mark.
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Thank you, I’ll look into it. It definitely works well for you.
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I stopped using Mega when they deleted a whole folder of studio and concert recordings that I’d done (legally), under the excuse of copyright infringement, and without contacting me first. Fortunately they were only online backups and I still had the originals sorted locally.
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I do my best to steer away from any Cloud storage, but understand not everybody can do that. Glad you won you case. Happy Tuesday. Allan
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