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by lelandfe 1102 days ago
IANAL. For the US, users grant Reddit a license to use their content when they post it. The users still own that content. Reddit's license does not extend to your reuse of it[0], nor have the underlying users directly granted you permission, so it would not be legal (in the US) for you to reuse like that.

[0] "you may not... license, sell, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or Content" https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-september-...
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RobotToaster 1102 days ago
Wouldn't that mean it would be down to the individual users who still own each bit of content to issue a DMCA takedown if they objected?

I imagine the number of such requests would be small.

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scosman 1102 days ago
Ah. The old “I did so much copyright violation it would be infeasible for everyone I took content from to enforce” defence. I see nothing that could go wrong.
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lelandfe 1102 days ago
Posting that you’re going to be “using Reddit data to pre-seed the content” may make it a bit harder to dodge Reddit in court.
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danielheath 1102 days ago
Although prompting “write a comment replying to the text ‘<snip> in the style of u/landfe“ would yield something I copyrightable…
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