• ironsoap
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    1 year ago

    Dumb question for the Lemmy lawyers, if enough redditors joined could a class action lawsuit be filed to be paid for their content… Or is that so outside of the TOS that it’s not worth considering?

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        1 year ago

        Reddit doesn’t “own” the content, TOS only have users agree to give Reddit a license to do as it pleases.

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          1 year ago

          Ah, right they don’t own it! It’s just stored on their servers, and they have exclusive rights to do whatever they’d like with it. But they don’t own it.

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        1 year ago

        However It gets interesting because under EU law TOS that violate GDPR are not enforceable. So at least EU citizens could probably have some recourse.

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      You could do a class action for whatever you want, but it would have less than 0% chance of winning. You created a reddit account and agreed to their TOS, the TOS which are like every other sites where anything you post on there publicly belongs to them.