Comment by bitshiftfaced
3 years ago
People who give their consent to Discord to host their writing don't necessarily do so for third parties. Isn't there a copyright issue here?
3 years ago
People who give their consent to Discord to host their writing don't necessarily do so for third parties. Isn't there a copyright issue here?
Not really for a few reasons:
- The API grants you essentially a sublicense to the data, since Answer Overflow is a bot going through the official API and following the ToS properly, that should cover it for any potential issues - Answer Overflow gets consent from users to use their messages https://docs.answeroverflow.com/user-settings/displaying-mes...
Oh you're getting user consent, so that makes sense. But I don't really understand how the API would grant you a sublicense to host written works.
It's from this section of the terms of service:
https://discord.com/developers/docs/policies-and-agreements/...
> Subject to your compliance with the Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-assignable, revocable license to access and use the APIs and Documentation we make available to you solely as necessary to integrate with, develop, and operate your Application
When you post on Discord, you grant them a transferable license to your content and that's one of the ways they use it
Disclaimer that it's probably more complicated than that and I'm a software engineer not a lawyer