The usual admin threat to reopen here:

https://imgur.com/a/qDMyZlX

I’ve notified the sub and left a recommendation to join kbin or lemmy. Curious to see if they also ban me from reddit over this, not that I planned on posting there again.

  • OtakuAltair@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Doesn’t reddit have the legal right to do basically anything with the content users create there?

    You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

    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 and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.

    I have no legal knowledge, but this seems pretty fucked to me…

    • terath@kbin.socialOP
      18·
      1 year ago

      Yes, they do, which is unsettling and why I’ve decided not to give them any more content.

    • 50gp@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      any platform with user content needs basic license from users to let the platform display content that is owned by the users

      • terath@kbin.socialOP
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • gk99@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • geoffervescent@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.