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)

  • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    68·
    6 months ago

    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)

    • Echo Dot
      9·
      6 months ago

      Right but if they use your content anyway and you find out (and that’s a big if, because it’ll just disappear into some AI data set and you’ll never see it again), what are you going to do? Sue?

        • Echo Dot
          31·
          6 months ago

          Right but in order for it to have any meaning it has to be at least be theoretically enforceable. This is obviously so not enforceable I don’t think they’re going to care about it. So it don’t do anything.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
      61·
      6 months ago

      There’s a bit more to it than just that

      BY - attribution is required

      NC - as you said, cannot be used for commercial purposes

      SA - Share Alike -anything using it must be shared under a similar license.