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Among other rights it includes the right to "adapt" (i.e. modify), so it isn't just about distribution rights.
by eterm 11y ago
Among other rights it includes the right to "adapt" (i.e. modify), so it isn't just about distribution rights.
- Bjartr 11y agoIf you upload an image, and they want to re-encode it, or create a thumbnail for it, they need that right assigned to them it they're infringing copyright.
- onion2k 11y agoIn the case of software content, that would include automatically recompiling the content that you upload to a new target format in the future, so if Oculus develop a new way of deploying content in 5 years time they won't have to bin everything people have uploaded. It's not really any different to Youtube asking for a license to transcode video content in to new formats. They could ask only for the right to do that sort of thing, but a more broad language covers things no one will have thought of. It's not (necessarily) evil.
- threeseed 11y agoCreating a thumbnail, re-encoding, rounding corners, borders, auto enhance etc. I can think of a million ways websites modify user's photos. Likewise for uploaded text they filter for black words, auto trim, strip XSS/SQL attacks etc. All of this is "adapting".
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- sjtgraham 11y agoConsider this example: If you upload some screenshots of your app to an app store for Oculus/Apple/Google/whoever to display with your app, what exactly do you think a thumbnail is? Or transcoding from JPEG to PNG? Legally, it's a derivative work, i.e. an adaptation. There is nothing sinister about it. Lawyers gonna lawyer.