minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agoReddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's contentwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1254arrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square101fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoTOS dictates that Reddit owns all content on their platform, you’d have no case
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months 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-up2·9 months 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-up1·9 months agoRead the TOS, they don’t have “exclusive” rights.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-29 months 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-up1·9 months agoThere’s a lot of “at least EU citizens” going around lol
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoCalifornia has something similar too (CCPA), as do a few other non-EU countries and US states.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoAmericans find it odd that other people have legal protections.
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
California has something similar too (CCPA), as do a few other non-EU countries and US states.
Americans find it odd that other people have legal protections.