I know what the Creative Commons is but not this new thing or why it keeps popping up in comments on Lemmy

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    6 months ago

    I should add that there is one approach that could be taken here. Take this with a huge grain of salt because I am not a lawyer.

    When you are posting on Lemmy you are likely granting an implicit license to Lemmy server operators to distribute your work. Basically because you understand that posting a public comment on Lemmy will make it available on your and other Lemmy servers it is assumed that it is ok to do that.

    In other words you can’t write a story, post it on Lemmy, then sue every Lemmy instance that federated the comment and made it publicly available. That would be ridiculous.

    There is a possible legal argument that twists this implicit grant to include AI training. Maybe you could have a disclaimer that this wasn’t the case. I don’t know how you would need to word this and if it would actually change anything. But I would talk to a lawyer.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      In other words you can’t write a story, post it on Lemmy, then sue every Lemmy instance that federated the comment and made it publicly available. That would be ridiculous.

      I don’t see how what you’ve described is matching the situation of attaching a license to your own content/comment. Seems like a non-sequitur to me.

      Take this with a huge grain of salt because I am not a lawyer.

      Might not be best to try and give legal advice off of a hypothetical, if you are not a lawyer. Especially in a conversation that is already contested/heated.

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