Post #1863665
2025-09-17 23:26 UTC
Further PSA 3: Mitigations/Caveats to the above:
- Sites do need a rights clause to be able to share your posts.
- The rights clauses have two limiters: first, you grant rights "in connection with operating and providing the Services": but this explicitly includes making derivative works, which I suspect aren't thus limited.
- Second, Academia agrees not to sell user content for a profit (but, again, derivatives)
I'm unconvinced that these limiters protect against AI-churning content at all.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2025-09-17 23:33
PSA 3a: Other notes - As noted earlier, it's possible that a bunch of this stuff is unenforceable in some jurisdictions. I don't advise testing this, lawyers are expensive. - For comparison, the hcommons terms could do better on delimiters: they could set out more limits on content reuse. One advantage the hcommons ToS has though is that their license to use content stops if you remove the content: conversely the Academia licenses are irrevocable. (Nb: am not a lawyer, so take my notes w/salt)