Correct but the person who took the pic/vid owns the rights for it legally speaking. This content is already being trained off of, scraped off YouTube, Instagram etc. All Kled does is put the money back into the pockets of the people.
> Correct but the person who took the pic/vid owns the rights for it legally speaking.
Not really, there are a lot of ways to take images/videos you aren't legally allowed to publish later. You can have them for yourself but you can't share them publically (or give to a company like yours).
I’m also curious about this. I’m not having a strong reaction yet because I’m just not quite sure what to make of it, though at first glance it certainly has me going “wait what?”
I hope it’s not just some boiler plate legalese about how you have to make sure you have the rights to everything you upload.
It’s not just boilerplate. We actively verify uploads using multiple signals: EXIF metadata, timestamps, device signatures, and visual similarity checks. If a file wasn't captured by the uploader’s device or shows signs of being scraped/copied, it gets flagged or rejected.
In short, if it's not your original content, it won’t pass. And we’re constantly tightening this loop as we scale.
I think I’m less worried about whether or not it’s my original content and more about whether or not what I shot is ok to sell
That being said I did not consider that side of things, and I think it’s great you’re so proactive about it. Hopefully that does not come off as condescending/patronizing!
Wow, you’ve cracked the mystery of photography .. sometimes people take pictures of other people. What’s next, discovering that mirrors reflect more than just yourself and that’s a valid wtf moment in your world view too …
The law has limits on what you can do with your camera and photos. Until now, most people were operating within these limits, so there was no problem. In the modern times of big tech, automation, AI, and large scale photo databases, you simply cannot scale up your simple user's rights without running into the law. And imho, rightly so.
Can't reply to ur other comment but yea, Latham and Watkins represents us. The best lawyers on the planet, so yea we've talked to lawyers about it lol.
That's great. Good thing its explicitly illegal to distribute sexual material of another individual without their consent. But it's completely legal for you to own that material with their consent.
Your blanket claim that you own the rights to commercially distribute all photos that you took is just not true.