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Yeah, I find it extremely off putting how they feel so confident to declare ownership over content we all gave them and built for free. Worse, at the same time they accuse US of being freeloaders! If I'm contributing free content I expect at a minimum some respect and civility in return, not being treated like some free slave labour.
Doesn't reddit have the legal right to do basically anything with the content users create there?
I have no legal knowledge, but this seems pretty fucked to me...
Yes, they do, which is unsettling and why I've decided not to give them any more content.
any platform with user content needs basic license from users to let the platform display content that is owned by the users
That's true, but most of the terms are scoped as "to provide the service." This is explicitly scoped to allow them to do anything "in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world" and even claims to be able to use your name and voice and possibly photo if it's "connected" with your content. I can't imagine something this broad would be held up in courts but who knows.
I'm just saying, they do this and also demanded r/piracy open back up, so shouldn't that mean reddit is now involved with piracy and should be gone after by media companies?
That's not really how it works. They can claim safe harbor from piracy that occurs on their forums and if they are demanding all communities open up then it's not an endorsement of certain subjects over others.
Just ownership and control over the content if it makes them money.
Basically "We can do what we want and you gotta suck a lemon".
Legally justifiable... but ethically? That's the real question.
Bingo!!! It's so fucking distasteful and entitled. That alone is what will keep me off the platform for the rest of my life.