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> used bots to inflate TikTok engagement Just like Reddit and HN? This is not a news for many. > Notably, he claims that ByteDance engineers stole popular con
by justsomehnguy 3y ago
> used bots to inflate TikTok engagement
Just like Reddit and HN? This is not a news for many.
> Notably, he claims that ByteDance engineers stole popular content from apps like Instagram and Snapchat and put the videos onto TikTok
Also not a news but there is always a question of who really owns the content. And it's not the ones who originally made it, that's for sure.
- anaganisk 3y agoThere is Ton of TikTok content always posted on reddit. And most of the content is just recycled, from different platforms.
- truetraveller 3y agoI know reddit did this, but do you have proof that HN did this?
- f_devd 3y ago> And it's not the ones who originally made it, that's for sure. Following copyright law (and common EULAs) it would be the ones who originally made it, with a perpetual 'do whatever you want' license granted to the platform. Without a DMCA takedown request it's not going to be enforced automatically though. The main issue here at least for US law is now that TikTok employees have posted content they are a publisher which could lose them immunity from DMCA lawsuits against user submitted content. Additionally on the ethics side, generally it's assumed that another user is stealing/reposting the content, for a platform it's less acceptable given that it would purely be for financial profit (which the original creator is not compensated for)