For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without loosing its soul in the process?
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To Federate or not to Federate: is this the Fediverse’s Don’t be Evil-Moment or its own Liberation through transfiguration? And why is the current political Left in wide parts unable to answer this…
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I imagine legal questions would be answered similarly as with email. If I send an email from my abc.com email address to your xyz.com email address, who owns the email? Who has copyright over it? I think the answer should be the same for Fediverse content.

    • BarbarianEnglish
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      9 months ago

      According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.

      So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I think the same basically applies to… Anything. I mean a sufficiently original book is copyrighted but a sufficiently unoriginal book is not. Substitute book with any kind of media you want.

        Makes you realize how finicky copyright is.