• QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It is true that Reddit does not hold a valid license to content that is

    1. Sufficiently long-form, unique etc. to be copyrightable, and
    2. posted by someone other than the copyright holder or someone with a sufficient license.

    However, as far as I understand it, the extent to which Reddit—a content provider and social network—is legally required to remedy this is to comply with DMCA requests and review reported content. Perhaps there is a higher standard that I am not aware of?

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      9 months ago

      And yet that exact kind of data is all over reddit in ways that are impractical to enforce by case by case DMCA. How many memes are there using footage from popular shows? How much fanart?

      More importantly, is that stuff not included as part of the data that reddit “owns” when they sell their data to tech companies? Because whether a DMCA takedown has been requested on that kind of data or not, doesn’t change the fact that they don’t hold the copyright in the first place. How can they sell things that they don’t even own?

      Something smells. The logic of this entire industry doesn’t add up.