Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months agoThe copyright law says that Musk cannot claim copyright while also claiming not to be accountable. That has nothing to do with users waiving their copyright, which has been the standard practice for all forum software since practically forever. It’s why prior to GDPR, their was nothing to motivate websites from deleting your posts and even that isn’t about copyright, it’s about privacy.
jarfil@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Copyright can only be waived in the US by dedicating the work to the Public Domain. In most other countries, it can only be assigned or licensed to someone.
The “standard practice in all forum software since practically forever”, has been to include a very broad use license on the work, without switching the copyright holder, in order to potect the forum owner from liability.
The GDPR is about a very broad take on “privacy”, where the rights of “access, modification, and removal” get extended to any “personal information”, no matter whether it’s “personally identifiable” or not.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
MVP!