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Most instances don't have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click "Agree"). I've noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is this necessary, or is the creator the automatic copyright owner? Does adding the copyright/license information do anything?

Please note if you have legal credentials in your reply. (I'm in the USA, but I'd be interested to hear about other jurisdictions if there are differences)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Well first thing is that the license is a copyleft license so it is still allowed to be used, distributed, etc. the only real difference between this license and public domain (as far as I know) is me saying that I don't want it being used for commercial purposes that's it.

Also for me its more just a way for me to say fuck you to everything having to be commercialized so even if it doesn't hold legal water I don't care.

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a bit more to it than just that

BY - attribution is required

NC - as you said, cannot be used for commercial purposes

SA - Share Alike -anything using it must be shared under a similar license.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ah well then I might try and find a license that doesn't require attribution because I don't care about that part. But the rest seem exactly what I'm going for.

Edit: grammar

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Ah well then I might try and find a license that doesn’t require attribution because I don’t care about that part.

I would argue attribution is also really important, as it forces them to expose publicly how they're training their models, bringing awareness.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Right but if they use your content anyway and you find out (and that's a big if, because it'll just disappear into some AI data set and you'll never see it again), what are you going to do? Sue?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

what are you going to do? Sue?

Personally? I let Creative Commons know what's going on, that their licenses are being ignored.

I'm pretty sure they'd have something to say about the matter.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They just said it was a statement of principle as much as anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right but in order for it to have any meaning it has to be at least be theoretically enforceable. This is obviously so not enforceable I don't think they're going to care about it. So it don't do anything.