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@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.
@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.
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@aral @jonpainterphoto @ArisuGunpla @boyter no, ActivityPub is just a protocol and I can write a new client which will also display your posts by default because that's how it works.
It's like you would put a torrent, publicly so anyone could see it and now demanding "do not use Deluge for downloading me". Fucking absurd, you're on decentralized network. You post are, and will be copied over just because that's how protocol works.
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.