Comment by Retr0id
5 hours ago
Which terms are not being enforced? (not disagreeing I just don't feel like reading a large legal document)
5 hours ago
Which terms are not being enforced? (not disagreeing I just don't feel like reading a large legal document)
> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies
The user content is supposed to be licensed only Y Combinator and (bleah) its affiliated companies (which are many, all the startups they fund, for example).
Curious why it should be on HackerNews to enforce restrictions on content they only license from you?
If it's owned by you and only licensed by HN shouldn't you be the one enforcing it?
Seems like they are trying to do that through the stated legal intermediary (YC)
If you carry on the quote two more words:
> ... a nonexclusive
I.e. this section is talking to additional rights to the content you post to ALSO go to YC, not that YC is guaranteeing it (+friends) will be the only one to hold these rights or will enforce who else should hold the rights to your publicly shared content for you.
There's a more intricate conversation to be had with GDPR and public data on forums in general but that's wholly unrelated to what YC's legal page says and still unlikely to end up in an alarming result.
I think that's incorrect. Exclusivity would be something you grant to YC. These terms need to make sense to be valid. Claiming exclusive rights would mean they are forbidding YOU from licensing YOUR rights to anyone else.
Imagine Facebook claiming that by uploading images you are granting them exclusive usage rights to that image. It would mean you couldn't upload it to any other site with similar terms anymore.
That agreement is largely about "Personal Information", not the posts and comments.
That said, there are "no scraping" and "commercial use restricted" carve-outs for the content on HN. Which honestly is bullshit.
None that I could see:
Your submissions to, and comments you make on, the Hacker News site are not Personal Information and are not "HN Information" as defined in this Privacy Policy.
Other Users: certain actions you take may be visible to other users of the Services.
I mean, just because they say the comments are not PI doesn't make it so.
That’s a good point. I’m only referring to the terms they used in the privacy policy.