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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 17:12:47 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Aral Balkan
   I don't like the copyright angle much, FWIW
   we know copyright is antisocial to boot. plus, in order to have your posts published, shared, and displayed by other federated servers, you have most certainly been asked to grant a license that allows the sort of behavior you are concerned about.
   other social norms and laws are probably more relevant, but IMHO it would be hard to argue those activities were not authorized.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 17:12:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jon
     • ArisuGunpla
     • boyter

     @jonpainterphoto What Jon said. Just because I post the contents of my book publicly, it doesn’t mean that you can then go and republish it unless you have a license to do so. So that’s just the copyright angle. And then there’s the social one. Sure, if you can technically do something, you can do it. But you can also get socially outcast from a community for acting like a dick when you do so anyway when people ask you not to.

     @ArisuGunpla @boyter

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     Jon (jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 17:12:49 JST Jon

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     • Aral Balkan
     • ArisuGunpla
     • boyter

     @ArisuGunpla @aral @boyter Oh, what a person creates or publishes on social media is definitely owned by them, unless the service requires them to surrender their IP rights. An author’s copyright to a work begins at the creation of the work.

     That’s why instances based in the US need to affirmatively create a DMCA contact to avoid liability for copyright infringement should one of their users violate someone’s copyright.

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     arisugunpla@mastodon.world's status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 17:12:57 JST ArisuGunpla

     • Aral Balkan
     • boyter

     @aral @boyter
     Are you serious @aral ? You are using social media. On the internet. Nothing you say here is private or even owned by you. As soon as you serve your content to a location outside your server, it's out. You cannot unpost. Are you going to rail against the wayback machine too? What if I retoot your post without your permission? What if I take a screenshot right now and meme you on Reddit??? If you don't want to spread something, don't post it!