Let’s say you find a subreddit with a very interesting guide that contains no private information.
What’s the legality of copy / pasting that text over here? And if it is reworded, manually or with chat gpt?
The assumption here is that it would be done manually without scraping.
Edit: it looks like Reddit does not help the copyright and there wouldn’t be massive issues if we created a community to copy over posts with useful guides and tutorials. I can’t create it since I’m not on lemmy.world and wouldn’t have time to moderate it, but I would contribute if a community like that existed.
Lemmit.online exists
Yes, but lemmit simply posts new stuff in chronological order. I’m talking about re-posting the countless good guides and tutorials so that searching on Lemmy can give better results.
Not a lawyer but I know a little bit!
So the Reddit user agreement (Effective June 19, 2023. Last Revised April 18, 2023) says:
What this means (I think) is that while reddit is forever allowed to use whatever you posted in any way, even selling and monetising it, the author retains copyright of their post/comments. So if you copy/paste something over from reddit, the author can claim copyright infringement, but not reddit.
Please don’t treat this as legal advice!
Thank you so much!
Also not a lawyer, but I cannot recall a single instance of an online text post being the catalyst of a copyright lawsuit. AFAIK, there are deliberate steps one must take in order to protect their intellectual property. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
It says nothing about copyright. There’s a different between author rights and copyright. Reddit license IS a copyright, but you still retain author rights.
The difference between the two is simple. Author right is a right to say that some work of art was made by you and no one else. Copyright is a right for others to reproduce your work. The way it works is kind of simple too. You wrote a book and you’re its author. No one can claim otherwise. But then you want to see it printed, so you go to a publisher and pass copyright to them. Now you own author right and publisher owns a copyright. That results in a situation that publisher can print as many books as they wish and wherever they wish. And you can claim that you wrote them. And if the contract between you two is not good, you might not even get a penny out of it, lol. And you can’t go to another publisher, because you don’t have copyright anymore.