Hot PotatoReddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site
It’s not your data.
Fuck off.
I mean it literally is. People post it there voluntarily knowing that. It’s what keeps the lights on.
cygnusSort of, but not really. From the Reddit ToS:
By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.
You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
chakan2Lol…really? So the can reuse, modify, and remove all association with your content, but somehow you think you still own it?
I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
In essence, it means that you reserve the right to also use the content for your own purposes, without Reddit having any recourse to preventing you from doing that.
Except they published your work, all variants of said work, and completely eliminated you as the author of said work.
I don’t know how else to explain to you that you don’t own that work anymore. You have rights to it. But you don’t own it.
Except they published your work, all variants of said work, and completely eliminated you as the author of said work.
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It’s the opposite; you own it, but Reddit also have rights to it.