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What is the Legal copyright on a Lemmy Post? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most instances don't have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click "Agree"). I've noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is this necessary, or is the creator the automatic copyright owner? Does adding the copyright/license information do anything?

Please note if you have legal credentials in your reply. (I'm in the USA, but I'd be interested to hear about other jurisdictions if there are differences)

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[–] Kalcifer 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This Stack Exchange answer has some potentially relevant info. One notable excerpt:

The short answer is 'it depends'. [...]

It depends on:

whether the code is eligible for copyright,

what license the content of the particular forum is under, and

what additional license (if any) the individual contributor has put it under.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Well first thing is that the license is a copyleft license so it is still allowed to be used, distributed, etc. the only real difference between this license and public domain (as far as I know) is me saying that I don't want it being used for commercial purposes that's it.

Also for me its more just a way for me to say fuck you to everything having to be commercialized so even if it doesn't hold legal water I don't care.

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

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