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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] lauha@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Regardless of the license (apart perhaps from public domain) it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But those two licenses give everyone an irrevocable right to do certain things with your content forever and displaying it on a website is one of those things (assuming they follow the other requirements of the license).

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago

If StackOverflow teach me something, that is that legal jargon about copyright isn't very efficient again ctrl+C/ctrl+V

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

They absolutely can, you gave them an explicit (under most circumstances irrevocable) permission to do so. That’s how contracts work.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unlike in US, and I cannot speak for all of EU, but at least in Finland a contract cannot take away your legal rights.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago

You can when it comes to copyright. That’s EU-law and anything else would be such a horrible idea that no country would ever set up a law saying otherwise.

If you could simply revoke copyright licenses you would completely kill any practicality of selling your copyrighted works and it would fully undermine any purpose it served in the first place.