Meme templates that are made from material that is licensed under creative commons or other copyleeft licenses?
Are there any communities or websites that collect/list them?
A better question to start would be if there’s any creative commons or copyleft media in the modern zeitgeist.
Memes are made organically as small units of culture and gain popularity via an implicit understanding of meaning that doesn’t need to be explained.
For a meme template to have those attributes, it would need to derive from a work that was licensed as CC/copyleft from the get-go and gained popularity among the masses.
That being said, seems a moot point when fair use/derivative work standards allow unlicensed memes to legally exist regardless of the original licensing of the work they were derived from.
Aah. Are memes deemed ok under fair use?
Has there been any previous case where any country has mentioned that?
Pretty sure memes dont fall under fair use or derivative work. I guess it depends what your using them for. We hired a new sign maker who used the “winter is coming” meme for one of their in-store signs (it was actually tastefully done in chalk art and looked good). Its stayed up for about a week before corporate saw it and told us to take it down before we get a cease and desist.
Long version- https://founderslegal.com/are-memes-dangerous/
Short Answer -https://bytescare.com/blog/are-memes-copyright-infringement
meme culture is arguably a subset of that thing called “remix culture”, but, the guy who coined that term and created Creative Commons to support it was tragicomically mistaken about the viability (not to mention actual utility) of his efforts to get participants in it to care about engaging with copyright law via copyleft licenses.
so, i think the answer to your question is: probably not.
“hmm, i should find an appropriately licensed image to use” is not something most practitioners of applied memeography have ever said or will ever say (at least until general-purpose computers are actually outlawed, such that casual copyright infringement becomes non-trivial). imo. 🤡
