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Who's copyright?

• tyingq 9y ago
  Reddit's. "By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so." The original comment submitters could grant you a license on their own, but that might be difficult to coordinate.
  • bigiain 9y ago
    You'll note Reddit do not ask for or claim any copyright there - just a license to use whatever you publish there in specific (though very broad) ways.
    • tyingq 9y ago
      They do ask for a license that allows them to resell your content.
      • boomlinde 9y ago
        Yes, that's still not the same thing as owning the copyright. The difference is significant, because I am not infringing on Reddit's rights by copying and re-publishing a Reddit comment. If anyone, I'm infringing on the copyright of the original author of the comment, while Reddit has no grounds for a copyright infringement lawsuit.
  • LamaOfRuin 9y ago
    To be clear then, reddit has no apparent copyright (on individual comments anyway). They have a license to the copyrighted work, which they're allowed to re-license. I view this as significant mainly because it changes what they could sue you for, and any fair use evaluation if copyright does enter into it at some point.
    • bigiain 9y ago
      And they specifically mention it's a "non-exclusive" license. I suspect Reddit might claim a Collection Copyright in the compilation of posts/comments - so even if you could acquire your own license to a post and each of the comments - if you tried publishing that as a book, Reddit could claim the organisation of those individually copyrighted items is owned by them...