ToS Content Licensing

User beware: "You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service."...and"We may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice."

From the ToS:"When you submit content to us, you give us (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our service), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving

but they are not lying because according to terms of service, you licensed your content to them..... so they are not sharing your content.... they are sharing their content

Can you provide a source for this assertion? The terms of service on their website has the standard "you automatically grant us a license so we can distribute it" clause, but then has this additional term directly following:> You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including

Sibling post of mine has relevant citations.Content is clearly owned by the user; why would someone get to use it anywhere off-platform without their permission?

Even if you no longer own or control the content?

He's probably referring to 4(d) of the ToS."You automatically grant the Site and its affiliates, contractors, and partners, a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, modify, publicly display, reproduce and distribute the content in order for the Site to provide You the Service. If you object to any content on the Site, Your sole remedy is to cease using the Site."

From the terms of service... “ In other words, you grant us and our subsidiaries affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media.” lol nope

For all the people mis-interpreting CL's TOUs: "You automatically grant and assign to CL, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to CL, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post. You also expressly grant and assign t

Theoretically you could, but I guess the "User Agreements" on websites like Hackernews tell that all your copyrights for the content you enter belong to them, so it's really up to them afterwards