Gregory's Server@Gargron @KevinMarks @davew Thanks for expanding. I think understanding your position on this is really important. I definitely agree that DRM is not the objective; sitting in the US, I don't know that I trust the courts to get to the right place. There's a strong possibility that the EU will do better.
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 @Gargron @KevinMarks @davew As a legal principle I think that's right (although also not a lawyer). We may need a case to act as precedent in order to truly establish this beyond doubt.   @Gargron @ben @KevinMarks @davew One thing that feeds offer is a machine-readable rights declaration. Here is a copy/paste from my feed: <rights>All content written by Tim Bray and photos by Tim Bray Copyright Tim Bray, some rights reserved, see /ongoing/misc/Copyright</rights> - the linked HTML file asserts invokes a CC license. Does ActivityPub have the equivalent? Because for legal issues, I’m really uncomfortable relying on defaults. These things should be explicit. |
@ben @KevinMarks @davew One more thing. I am not a lawyer, but in my understanding the "default" license for any works you publish on the web is not "public domain", it is "no license". Content published on the fediverse cannot be used for anything, legally, except the intended function of the service. It is only if you want to to give more rights that you'd need "content licensing support". In that sense I also don't see this as a show stopper for federation today.