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What is the Legal copyright on a Lemmy Post? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most instances don't have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click "Agree"). I've noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is this necessary, or is the creator the automatic copyright owner? Does adding the copyright/license information do anything?

Please note if you have legal credentials in your reply. (I'm in the USA, but I'd be interested to hear about other jurisdictions if there are differences)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who cares what lemmy.world said?

It's where the content was initially posted, so any terms of service would be applicable to the content at the time of posting. That's why.

The onus is on the Federated server receiving the content that's already licensed to reject the content if they do not want to abide by the license. If they accept the content, they have to abide by the license.

And as far as the rest of you diatribe, I'll just remind you that licenses can't just be stripped from content because some third-party TOS says it can.

We would have seen much 'money laundering' style mayhem on the Internet with other people's content before today, if that was possible.

I think we've discussed this enough, so I'm just going to leave it with an 'agree to disagree', and move on.

Have a nice day.

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