misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoStack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPTwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
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minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoEverything you submit to StackOverflow is licensed under either MIT or CC depending on when you submitted it.
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoRegardless 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.
minus-squareFiona@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year ago 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.
Everything you submit to StackOverflow is licensed under either MIT or CC depending on when you submitted it.
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.
They absolutely can, you gave them an explicit (under most circumstances irrevocable) permission to do so. That’s how contracts work.