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This means Reddit is selling the intellectual contribution of its users, on its face. If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legit

by ncr100 3y ago

This means Reddit is selling the intellectual contribution of its users, on its face. If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service? "The user is the product." Appears to be true again, now there.

pavel_lishin 3y ago
> If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service? I don't see why they wouldn't be. In any case, I'll be spending this week scrambling my old comments & probably deleting my submissions. Reddit's sufficiently user hostile at this point that I can find other places to entertain myself online.
- kjkjadksj 3y ago
  All your comments are crawled aready, there’s no point in deleting a few miliseconds after posting.
nullindividual 3y ago
What about the works that their users have stolen and (re)posted without permission?
lelandfe 3y ago
When you post something on Reddit, you give Reddit a license to do more or less whatever it wants with the thing posted. https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement > 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
- thebruce87m 3y ago
  > When Your Content is … submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide From the way this is worded it sounds like if someone else posts (submits) your content you are somehow granting this despite being unaware.
  - bick_nyers 3y ago
    IANAL but I think the "you grant us" part is what is key. If a license is not yours to grant, then that license is not theirs to receive.
    - Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
      The models trained there on are rotten fruits and will be destroyed under court order. Frankly, a cartel with the power to change their countries laws would be wise to spend a few billion building out a state of the art ai lab and blatantly training their models on everything they can download. Everyone would use it. Would the us actually invade ($country) because hyper realistic Taylor swift and Mickey Mouse porn is a tap and swipe away?
  - lelandfe 3y ago
    "Your Content," not "your content." It is legalese jargon, defined as: "Content created with or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account" And: "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" Of course, how many people posting memes on Reddit have the rights to do so? How many know they're in violation of the user agreement in doing so, hah.

by ncr100 3y ago

pavel_lishin 3y ago

> If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service? I don't see why they wouldn't be. In any case, I'll be spending this week scrambling my old comments & probably deleting my submissions. Reddit's sufficiently user hostile at this point that I can find other places to entertain myself online.

kjkjadksj 3y ago
All your comments are crawled aready, there’s no point in deleting a few miliseconds after posting.

nullindividual 3y ago

What about the works that their users have stolen and (re)posted without permission?

lelandfe 3y ago

When you post something on Reddit, you give Reddit a license to do more or less whatever it wants with the thing posted. https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement > 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

thebruce87m 3y ago
> When Your Content is … submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide From the way this is worded it sounds like if someone else posts (submits) your content you are somehow granting this despite being unaware.
- bick_nyers 3y ago
  IANAL but I think the "you grant us" part is what is key. If a license is not yours to grant, then that license is not theirs to receive.
  - Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
    The models trained there on are rotten fruits and will be destroyed under court order. Frankly, a cartel with the power to change their countries laws would be wise to spend a few billion building out a state of the art ai lab and blatantly training their models on everything they can download. Everyone would use it. Would the us actually invade ($country) because hyper realistic Taylor swift and Mickey Mouse porn is a tap and swipe away?
- lelandfe 3y ago
  "Your Content," not "your content." It is legalese jargon, defined as: "Content created with or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account" And: "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" Of course, how many people posting memes on Reddit have the rights to do so? How many know they're in violation of the user agreement in doing so, hah.