Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Where's the copyright? The only thing I see there is the image thumbnails. Ordinarily that kind of thing is never going to be infringing. I think in the special circumstances of how they're being used, it's arguable they're infringing, but it's a novel and I think weak argument.

It is not copyright, it is Right to Publicity, which the State of Nevada has a law for. It protects voice too.
And it covers emulations of the voice.

 

[Me262PrinceOfTurboJet]

Nick must have walked into that surgeon's office and slid him this picture, going "Yeah, I'm really into the great Cornholio but with tits, can you make that happen?"
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And the surgeon made it so.
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"Return the slaaaaab or suffer my cuuuurse."

 

[Captain Manning]

You enforce it on Youtube, not Melton.
Just send them a C&D about violation of "Right to Publicity" by the company supertips.gg used on the following channels "<list>" and they will shut the channels faster than you can blink.

Right, but you wouldn't enforce the Supertips ToS on YouTube. I presume that thing is meaningless if Melton wouldn't actually enforce it.

@Owlbear answered my question. You go with general NIL/publicity rights, or something in YouTube's ToS.

 

[Trans Randy]

I can't get over how much she changed up her face. She legit looks like a different person. Whether going from Gollum to Madonna-in-the-making is an upgrade I'll leave to the likes of Fapcop. She looks uncanny as hell to me, before and after the nip and tuck.

all I can say that apart from hair color, she now looks a lot like April.
Which I'm sure is just a coincidence and not a completely broken woman trying to keep up with her baby daddy's sidepiece.

 

[Soapmore]

Nick showed his prescription Adderall bottle, which prompted a chatter to say:

...To which Nick replied that he hasn't been diagnosed ADHD, but he's pretty sure he has it.

 

[AnOminous]

Small potatoes e-celebs would probably have to prove that Fatrick's Supertips voices are causing harm.

It isn't solely celebrities. The right protects individuals from having their image commercially exploited without their consent, regardless of whether they intended to exploit it themselves. Even in the most important case involving an actual celebrity, Waits v. Frito-Lay, Inc., Waits didn't allege he was deprived of income by someone making money off his image.

In fact, he argued he explicitly did not want his likeness (in this case his voice) commercially exploited at all on principle, and that part of his core reputation was that he rejected such crass behavior as doing commercials.

The right also implicates privacy and reputation. A case that isn't U.S. but presents a similar issue is the TechnoViking case. You might recall this old meme:

The Viking himself comes in at about a minute in.

Is it an infringement just to have the video? Pretty obviously not, it's been up 14 years.

However, the original filmer started commercially exploiting it, selling merch, and similar things. TechnoViking sued and bankrupted the guy.

I'd argue using people's AI voices to collect "donations" is commercial exploitation of their image and falls well within the ground covered by the cause of action.

I'll note right of publicity (and the other rights sometimes named differently in different states) may look like an intellectual property right, but it isn't. The economic end of it looks like an IP right, but it also covers privacy, reputational and other dignitary rights. It isn't really a single clear-cut right so much as a bundle of intertwined rights, and violating even one can establish a right to relief.

Using a replica of someone's own voice to defame them certainly implicates dignitary interests.

Throw in that most of the people who would object to Pedomelton's exploitation of their likenesses are in competition for the same superchat/tip money and you have a bunch of other cool business torts.

tl;dr something could pass muster under "fair use" if you were just talking copyright, yet still violate other reputational rights.

 

[AltisticRight]

Nick, there was no magic word combination.

Aaron tasted my goo

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Right, but you wouldn't enforce the Supertips ToS on YouTube. I presume that thing is meaningless if Melton wouldn't actually enforce it.

@Owlbear answered my question. You go with general NIL/publicity rights, or something in YouTube's ToS.

Obviously you would use the Youtube ToS, which Supertips.gg is violating.

 

[AnOminous]

My question with that is: Can you compel enforcement of a ToS, when the entity responsible for drafting and enforcing a ToS doesn't give a shit?

Not really, except to the extent ToS is sometimes considered contractual (not even going to talk about the UCC). It could be used, though, as evidence the corporation/person violating the law knew it was wrong to do.

It'd be more likely to succeed to get YouTube to enforce their own ToS against Pedotips.

It is not copyright, it is Right to Publicity, which the State of Nevada has a law for. It protects voice too.
And it covers emulations of the voice.

That's pretty much what I've been saying since the beginning, first on Aaron's thread.

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Not really, except to the extent ToS is sometimes considered contractual (not even going to talk about the UCC). It could be used, though, as evidence the corporation/person violating the law knew it was wrong to do.

It'd be more likely to succeed to get YouTube to enforce their own ToS against Pedotips.

Supertips.gg might be violating Nevada law.
I believe all it would take is an email to Youtube.

https://nevada.public.law/statutes/nrs_597.790

 

[Nate Higgers]

Nick must have walked into that surgeon's office and slid him this picture, going "Yeah, I'm really into the great Cornholio but with tits, can you make that happen?"

“I need balldo! I come from a land where we have no balldos! Heh, heh, I need balldo for my bungholio!” - Kayla Rekieta, probably

 

[Captain Manning]

not even going to talk about the UCC

Please and thank you.

Nick is like one step away from going full SovCit now, and those fags love the UCC.

Anyways, I predicted many pages ago he's probably gonna get booted off of YouTube like Ralph has, and this might be the thing that does it.

 

[Flora Fox]

There's also the ToS for supertips....but what do I know. I do shoddy analysis......

His issue-spotting is ass.

 

[CompaqOperator]

I was wondering about the rustang today. How long before it breaks down due to broke, irresponsible wigger Rick not getting any maintenance done on it?

 

[Sneed Force One]

His issue-spotting is ass.

Being a disingenuous, surface-level loudmouth is Nick’s specialty.
It’s always entertaining watching his outrage when actual licensed attorneys dive into technical analysis and unearth something as basic as Terms and Conditions.
I’d bet my last dollar Nick implemented the system without reading the TOS. He didn’t care, he just wanted to be on the platform to spite Aaron. Total wetbrain move.

 

[Vibralldo]

Absolutely correct. But Nick is an idiot, so you should still bill him for giving him advice that sabotages him.

I'll immediately drive out to Minnesota and tape my bill to his studio (house)

It's fine, he said I could do it!

 

[Harm]

I don't give a fuck if it's legal or not, I want someone to sue Nick and Melton over the AI voices because it would amuse me greatly.

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

I don't give a fuck if it's legal or not, I want someone to sue Nick and Melton over the AI voices because it would amuse me greatly.

I think it would be funnier if youtube shut them down over ToS violations and putting Youtube at risk by breaking the law on platform.

Just kill all the channels. Much better than lawsuits.
Imagine the nuclear Fallout.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Even with Joe "Ballwasher" Lawgic he is barely breaking 2k again. Arguably with one of the most interesting witnesses in this case. I believe Denny's is always hiring.

 

[Vibralldo]

Nick continuing to seethe about Aaron and Sean, claiming that getting a far worse deal than everyone predicted is actually better than Aaron paying $50 for sharing the nudes Nick's whore wife posed for.

https://x.com/RekietaLaw/status/1917283326072705281

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/fFlne