minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years 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 · 2 years agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoTOS dictates that Reddit owns all content on their platform, you’d have no case
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years 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-up2·2 years 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-up1·2 years agoRead the TOS, they don’t have “exclusive” rights.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 years 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-up1·2 years agoThere’s a lot of “at least EU citizens” going around lol
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoAmericans find it odd that other people have legal protections.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years 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.