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)

  • Cosmic ClericEnglish
    -2•7 months ago

    All fediverse apps start on your instance

    You forgot about the web client.

    You’re literally giving it to anyone who would listen.

    The quantity of sharing does not dimish the licensing of the content.

    So to me copyright is like saying “only people I approve of can look at this sign” and then posting that sign on every tree and post in town

    I mean, ProPublica has explicit instructions on how to share their content with others, content that is licensed with a Creative Commons license, and that includes displaying the license number, when you share the content.

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