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  • 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.

    • 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)

  • On a tangent subject, why does everyone push back so forcefully, why do they care so incredibly, why do they enforce group think on you, just for including a link for an open source license in your comments?

    I truly don't get the level of fevor, especially when they could just block the user if they don't want to see the license link.

    But even more so, why does it trigger people so, why just having that link brings out the worse in people?

    Are people trying to format the Internet so they see it exactly how they personally want to see it?

    I truly don't understand why we're wasting so much time discussing this.

    Is it really just the AI modeling companies that are forcefully trying to keep this from becoming a thing, by astroturfing, because then they really would have to start honoring the license if everyone did it, and if they get caught not doing so fearing the political/marketing and legal ramifications of such?

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

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