Let's make it a game to figure out the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint directly from their Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):
a. "...website located at bsky.social (“Site”), [AND!] the Authenticated Transfer [AT] social protocol (“Protocol”)"
b. "...our Site, Protocol, and App... are collectively called the “Services.”"
c. "By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky..."
Any guesses?
Nobody? OK, here's another hint to the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint #2 comes from alternative history:
Back in 1974 technology pioneer Robert Metcalfe at Xerox PARC developed the Ethernet PROTOCOL upon which the internet is based. Astutely, Xerox Terms of Service included an irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license any data sent over the Ethernet protocol. Which is why Xerox now effectively co-owns everything.
OK, still looking for the answer to the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint #3:
"The AT Protocol is a networking technology created by Bluesky to power the next generation of social applications." (https://atproto.com/)
OK, it's getting late, so here is the insane overreach that #Bluesky are attempting:
Not only do their Terms of Service grant them a limitless, free-for-all, forever license to all your content for using their application (Bluesky). They are taking, get this, a limitless, free for all, forever license for anything that touches their AT protocol. And they imagine a future where all social media runs on their protocol. Isn't that rich?
@LizardSF Read the Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):
"To make these Terms easier to read, our Site, Protocol, and App, and our content and services provided therein, are collectively called the “Services.”"
"By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky and its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensee, successors, and assigns... an irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license..."
@mastodonmigration Facebook:
“Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). “ (Instagram much the same)
Twitter: By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating).
Etc.
@LizardSF Most of these companies' terms contain a limitation. For Facebook the limitation reads:
"This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above."
This is not a small matter, as it limits what Facebook (and others who similarly limit their license) can do. These limited licenses may arguably be necessary for them to do what they do. Bluesky's license has no similar limitation.
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