Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments?

• explore_broaden@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the website ToS for different Lemmy instances, and does it really permit commercial use in AI?

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell, they don’t prohibit it. Couldn’t find any mention of it in Lemmy.world TOS

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    • explore_broaden@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes but the default state is that you have copyright over your posts/comments, and by sending them to your Lemmy server you are giving them some license to at least distribute the content to others (most services specify what license you are giving them in the ToS, which is where they would say that you are licensing them to sell you shit to AI companies). In theory by specifying the CC-SA-NC license or whatever that should be the license unless your Lemmy instance has some ToS terms that specifically say you’re granting additional privileges to someone by posting.

      Whether AI companies actually care (they don’t) is a different story, but if eventually they actually have to follow copyright laws like everyone else then it could matter.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they even notice it, they will say that the website TOS is the relevant license.

  Does Lemmy’s TOS state that I do not own the content that I upload to their site?

  ~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It says nothing, so you have copyright on it.

    Adding a restrictive license to it only means as much as you’re willing and able to police it yourself and take others to court.

    As an individual, for individual comments of two sentences each, this is not an option.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As an individual, for comments of two sentences each, this is not an option.

      My content is usually more than a sentence or two.

      Also, it puts a stake in the ground for any future enforcement done by others than myself if laws change.

      Its a low-hanging-fruit way of protecting my content. If it works, great, and if it doesn’t, then I’ll vote for someone else for Congress the next time.

      I’ve wasted more time replying on this single conversation/post than I have copy/pasting the link in all of my comments so far.

      ~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

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      • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Appreciate your thoughts and responses!

        Though we disagree on the effectiveness, I am all in favour of what you are pushing towards.

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