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For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I imagine legal questions would be answered similarly as with email. If I send an email from my abc.com email address to your xyz.com email address, who owns the email? Who has copyright over it? I think the answer should be the same for Fediverse content.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    According to a quick Google search (I'm no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes "sufficiently original" seems to be pretty arbitrary.

    So I guess if you post a short story, that's automatically copyrighted. Commenting "this" is not. And then there's a huge grey zone in the middle.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I think the same basically applies to... Anything. I mean a sufficiently original book is copyrighted but a sufficiently unoriginal book is not. Substitute book with any kind of media you want.

    Makes you realize how finicky copyright is.

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