{"id":98998,"date":"2014-03-23T22:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=98998"},"modified":"2014-03-23T23:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:00:53","slug":"sa-copyright-protector-safact-caught-pirating-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/98998-sa-copyright-protector-safact-caught-pirating-content.html","title":{"rendered":"SA copyright protector Safact caught pirating content"},"content":{"rendered":"

The website of the Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (Safact<\/a>) appears to have used copyrighted content without the proper permission.<\/p>\n

According to a report on Htxt<\/a><\/strong>, an article on the website about an Internet uploader being arrested in Cape Town used an \u201caccidentally photoshopped\u201d headline image from Reuters.<\/p>\n

An image search in Google reveals that images from Reuters and Shutterstock, among others, were used on the Safact website.<\/p>\n

The report quoted Safact CEO Corne Guldenpfennig<\/a> as saying that they had trusted their web design company, Triloqtech, to follow instructions to only use images they or Safact own the copyright to, or images in the public domain.<\/p>\n

Copyright infringement on the Safact site did not appear to be limited to images.<\/p>\n

Safact also lifted copyrighted content and republished it on its website without any attribution.<\/p>\n

Safact was asked for comment on the piracy of content by the organisation, but did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Although Safact did not answer questions about its possible copyright infringement, the organisation did take its website down after they were asked for comment.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time a copyright campaign group was caught infringing the copyright of others.<\/p>\n

In 2010 the U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) was caught<\/strong><\/a> copying the content of a competitor\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Torrentfreak<\/a> also reported in 2011 that anti-piracy group BREIN used a musician\u2019s track<\/strong><\/a> without permission in an anti-piracy campaign.<\/p>\n

\"Safact<\/a>

Safact down<\/p><\/div>\n

More on Safact and piracy in SA<\/h3>\n

Netflix, Hulu streaming illegal in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet piracy criminal, civil penalties in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA Internet pirate court appearance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

First for SA: Internet pirate arrested in Cape Town<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the content on the Safact website – which fights against copyright infringements in South Africa – appeared to infringe copyright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":93705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2340,22821,35,24186,3492,24188,22819,24190],"class_list":["post-98998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-copyright","tag-corne-guldenpfennig","tag-headline","tag-htxt","tag-reuters","tag-shutterstock","tag-southern-african-federation-against-copyright-theft-safact","tag-triloqtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99004,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98998\/revisions\/99004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}