For example:
CMV: I have a post on c/changemyview
Is there any issue with like copyright infringement or any other quirk to my understanding?
I say use whatever the fuck words you want to use.
IMO the only relevant issue is whether or not they accomplish the task of communicating the thing you wanted to communicate in the way you wanted to communicate it. If so, then they’re as right as they need to be, and any objection anyone else might have is only your problem to the extent that you allow it to be. If you care what they think then it matters, but if you don’t then it doesn’t.
K can we use it without having to worry about Redit raining down on our fledgling platform like thunder lol
Certainly.
I saw in another post that AMA is apparently copyrighted (which is ridiculous, but I guess rent-seeking fuckwads are gonna do what they’re gonna do). At worst, what that means though is that if the fuckwads at Reddit care enough, they can arrange for a DMCA takedown if someone uses it.
And unless they’re even more stupid than I cynically presume, Reddit isn’t even going to do that, since the last thing they should want to do is try to establish a precedent of criminal sanctions against forums that host copyrighted material.
We should just have AMW anyway. Sounds way cooler, like we dgaf.
“Yeah, I’m a frog. Ask me whatever.”
I’m sold.
[singsong] Luvvvvvitttt!
Doesn’t it require they defend the copyright?
Thats what I mean tho, can they even defend against us using it regardless of their preference on the matter?
A short term like that would be trademarked, not copyrighted. The two have very different rules.
That was me lol
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t non-commercial use of trademarked stuff ok? I was under the impression that it only counts as copyright infringement if you somehow profit from it, which would not be the case in most communities here.
(I’m not a lawyer tho so I could just be wrong)
The term AMA is technically copyrighted. Nobody here really cares much though, except maybe the admins that have their hardware in countries where they’re vulnerable to being sued for hosting copyright infringing stuff.
They get to care for us.
“Ask me anything” as a specific logo typeface is trademarked; but the term is too generic to be copyrighted.
So can we safely do it or put CMV: For ChangeMyView entries?
Yep. No problems as of yet.
You technically could, though there are burrows (the Lemmy term for communities) that are better for it, since this one is more for questions.
Remember that if a burrow doesn’t exist that’s to your liking, you could always make one (and I might join).
Ive been on Lemmy for awhile and you are the first person I’ve seen refer to a Lemmy community as a burrow - where did you get the term from?
I tried to search engine it but they still don’t seem to like indexing lemmy.
People on Lemmy are referred to as Lemmings, named after the animal, which makes its homes in burrows. One day someone asked what the equivalent here for “subreddit” was and burrows were mentioned and everyone was like “yeah let’s do that”… I still have the reply chain link that shows all that, though the post itself is removed, so on my end that exchange doesn’t show up anymore.
c/changemyview IS the Lemmy burrow
Edit:
burrows ≈ communities?
Edit: u can join me in my private
burrowanytime ;)Oh… misinterpreted that as just a part of the example, my bad.
Feel free to join me in my private
burrowanytime ;)I’d love to. Which one is it?
I was being saucy, I don’t run any private instances aha. Feel free to bookmark me however you like or DMs tho ;)
Edit: what does your username mean?
What, really? I actually didn’t know this. By who though?
Follow up question: What if my initials are AMA?
Thats an interesting twist 😹
By Redit…?
I mean I know it’s associated with Reddit, but I didn’t know it was trademarked by them.
Who else could that be relevant for, thats where it was implemented first, isn’t it?
Yes, but what I mean is I didn’t expect Reddit to go full Hollywood on the term. It would be like Lemmy gatekeeping the term Lemming. So I then wondered if maybe someone else seized that opportunity.
Do we have everything like reserved or copyrighted in a way that some asshole can’t take it away forever?
Edit: you’re giving Redit way too much cRedit if you don’t think they wouldn’t swoop in 5sec after reading this post
If nobody has swooped in yet, they probably won’t. At the moment, “AMA” seems like it has kleenex status.
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Can someone page a Lemmy.world admin to clarify?
It disturbs me that we live in a time when the idea of words being copyrighted is one even worth thinking about, and that people would feel that they may have to self-censor their expression out of fear of it.
Sorry but “self-censor” is a trademark of mine.
Can we do AL for AskLemmy posts? Like as a convention going forward or consider it?
