minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoReddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's contentwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down10
arrow-up1267arrow-down1external-linkReddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's contentwww.reuters.comminnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoTOS dictates that Reddit owns all content on their platform, you’d have no case
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoReddit doesn’t “own” the content, TOS only have users agree to give Reddit a license to do as it pleases.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAh, right they don’t own it! It’s just stored on their servers, and they have exclusive rights to do whatever they’d like with it. But they don’t own it.
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoRead the TOS, they don’t have “exclusive” rights.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoHowever It gets interesting because under EU law TOS that violate GDPR are not enforceable. So at least EU citizens could probably have some recourse.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThere’s a lot of “at least EU citizens” going around lol
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAmericans find it odd that other people have legal protections.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoCalifornia has something similar too (CCPA), as do a few other non-EU countries and US states.
TOS dictates that Reddit owns all content on their platform, you’d have no case
Reddit doesn’t “own” the content, TOS only have users agree to give Reddit a license to do as it pleases.
Ah, right they don’t own it! It’s just stored on their servers, and they have exclusive rights to do whatever they’d like with it. But they don’t own it.
Read the TOS, they don’t have “exclusive” rights.
However It gets interesting because under EU law TOS that violate GDPR are not enforceable. So at least EU citizens could probably have some recourse.
There’s a lot of “at least EU citizens” going around lol
Americans find it odd that other people have legal protections.
California has something similar too (CCPA), as do a few other non-EU countries and US states.