Thanks for posting. I'm going to go write my reps right now. Although for clarity, the Steem Blockchain is multi-jurisdictional. The juristiction and nexus extends to where there are nodes and copies of the blockchain running. Only posts published through Steemit.com's interface which is hosted on a server in NY is under the laws of NY, USA. Each interface has its own laws, terms, etc. (Busy, Steepshot, etc.) Content posted from interfaces hosted in other countries (Korea, China, African countries, etc.) are subject to their laws - which differ - and their users are only usually educated about their own copyright laws.

I was just talking with a friend of mine in China actually about ecommerce and knockoffs of American copyrights. It's interesting, but they are not as triggered as we are about it because they don't have the religious engraned core belief that copyright is property, only posession.

There really is no international law on copyright. Although it is helpful to us in the USA when dealing with users in countries where the convention is agreed upon.

I only clarify because just as we can ALL use our stake how we see fit and downvote this and that, technically, some people have as much right to not respect our laws when they are not in our country or using things in our country- such as using their own internet connection, or connecting to a blockchain.

I think this clarity is important as Steem evolves since many apps and smt apps will be developed and are already developed or developing. In addition, those companies may have licenses we users are unaware of. For example, dtube (like youtube) can get a music license to have copyright music in their videos. If that happens, will copyright crusaders using steemit consider if a post is made by dtube before downvoting it for copyright infringement? We shall see.

Important to open dialog about the future of steem blockchain development and how things will be dealt with as far as international use- I'm sure sites like Facebook have similar issues. However, since FB is located only in the US and centralized with one database interface it's so much easier to manage. Not so for Steem Blockchain- in fact, it's more like a mini version of the entire internet. And that has many things still not worked out as far as law, nexus, juristiction, right/wrong, etc.

Of course we will always protect our own copyright. I will protect my own. But I have some empathy and understanding for the difficulties ahead.

I also agree about stock photos- that's why I always use cc0, pd, or my own. I strongly believe what goes around comes around.