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by amichal 438 days ago
Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are:

https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both:

"You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownership over user-generated content or materials, and the user * doesn't need to waive any moral rights* by posting owned content."

and

"You waive your moral rights"

Edit: I have no energy for figuring out which of these statements is more true.
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Y_Y 438 days ago
I think in such a case (unless there was some context that clearly showed the difference between those two statements) then you as a user would benefit from contra proferentem. This legal principle (which is explicit law in some jurisdictions) says that the contract terms should be interpreted in favour of the party who did not write them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem

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actionfromafar 438 days ago
Also not a thing possible to do, depending on jurisdiction.
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shadowwwind 438 days ago
True. Currently it's practice at ToS;DR to show the worst version. Usually the one for the USA
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dimava 438 days ago
Both is right I think

It's just one in coming from EU TOS[1] and another comes from USA TOS[2]

And the website doesn't support that

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/terms-of-service/en

[2] https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en

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