• stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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    6 months ago

    Instead of solely deleting content, what if authors had instead moved their content/answers to something self-owned? Can SO even claim ownership legally of the content on their site? Seems iffy in my own, ignorant take.

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      6 months ago

      Everything you submit to StackOverflow is licensed under either MIT or CC depending on when you submitted it.

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        6 months ago

        Regardless of the license (apart perhaps from public domain) it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

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          it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

          They absolutely can, you gave them an explicit (under most circumstances irrevocable) permission to do so. That’s how contracts work.

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            Unlike in US, and I cannot speak for all of EU, but at least in Finland a contract cannot take away your legal rights.

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              You can when it comes to copyright. That’s EU-law and anything else would be such a horrible idea that no country would ever set up a law saying otherwise.

              If you could simply revoke copyright licenses you would completely kill any practicality of selling your copyrighted works and it would fully undermine any purpose it served in the first place.

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      6 months ago

      They can. It’s in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.

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        Well I suppose in that case, protesting via removal is fine IMO. I think the constructive, next-step would be to create a site where you, the user, own what you post. Does Reddit claim ownership over posts? I wonder what lemmy’s “policies” are and if this would be a good grounds (here) to start building something better than what SO was doing.

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          A SO alternative cannot exist if a user who posted an answer owns it. That defeats the purpose of sharing your knowledge and answering questions as it would mean the person asking the question cannot use your answer.

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            A SO alternative cannot exist if a user who posted an answer owns it. That defeats the purpose of sharing your knowledge and answering questions as it would mean the person asking the question cannot use your answer.

            Couldn’t these owners dictate how their creations are used? If you don’t own it, you don’t even get a say.

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              That’s the point of platforms like SO - you give away your knowledge, for free, for everyone, for any use case. If a user can restrict the use of their answers, then it makes no sense for SO to exist. It’s like donating food to a food bank and saying that your food should only go to white people and not black people.