"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."

- Noam Chomsky

@dansup
When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to: use, copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt

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https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service

-dansup

Loops

@krolden It has to be that way from a legal standpoint, otherwise you could file a copyright claim when loops redistributes your posts over the network.

@scott
lmao what?

If what you say is true then why isn't something like that in every other fedi service TOS? I can't find a single instance of someone trying to pull something like this. If I am wrong, please enlighten me.

@krolden They are opening themselves up to be sued or DMCA takedown notices if they don't have something like this in their TOS. You are giving them your copyrighted content, and they are distributing it. They need a license to do that, otherwise it is copyright infringement.

It is not a big concern for smaller instances that aren't making money. But let's say you create an Android app and you charge a couple of dollars to help cover the costs and put some food on the table. They could be sued for "selling" your copyrighted content.

Just because a lot of fedi platforms don't protect themselves legally does not mean you should not protect yourself legally.