• waratchess
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    4 months ago

    They don’t need a deal with Lemmy.

    It’s an open platform, they can just scrape all the data.

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      3 months ago

      Is that legal? When you sign onto a proprietary platform you usually sign away your rights, but with lemmy this isn’t the case, so scraping your data to use to train AI would violate copyright laws, right?

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        3 months ago

        They could set up their own fully federated Lemmy instance and scrape themselves.

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          3 months ago

          They could, and we couldn’t stop them, but I think they legally couldn’t use content from other instances or even from users from other instances. Not that that will stop them, of course.

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      4 months ago

      this may make it easier tho. as in, why set up another instance when you can just buy it from a well-known player?