When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

I’m trying to parse this. If you take the basic bits, they’re saying they can do anything with the info you give them.

When you upload or input information through Firefox (anything you do), , you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information.

The rest is just justification for the first part. They basically can use it in anyway they see fit.

Do these rights apply to forks?

Edit: These are the 2 I’m concerned about in the Acceptable Use policy:

• Violate the copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property rights of others,
• Violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity,

That means corporations can go after you for either.

Craig Ferguson did a joke about that in his stand up. He was so excited to hear Sean Connery was going to do a movie with a focus in Scotland, lol.

Exaxtly that, I just don’t have the bandwidth.

Thanks, I didn’t realize that worked here. But I meant tagging a user as awesome or a troll or whatever. That way, when you kind of remember seeing the name and they seem like they’re trolling, I can tell right away if I’ve had previous interactions with them. RES was awesome for that.

That was years ago. I’m sure I saved it on reddit, but I haven’t been back there since I switched. Sorry about that. It was a real study though, they were trying to figure out all of he social media trolling from Cambridge Analytica and all that. It might have been even earlier.

Yes, that and the tagging of users.

They did a study around the 2020 elections and have found the following to work with trolls:

Respond once with the facts (if you must), and then walk away. I have found Lemmy not needing that most of the time, just downvoting seems to work. But if you’re on the place that shall not be named, this works.

Working there? Sometimes there’s no choice. Buying anything there? Definitely a choice.

Ahhh, I always forget about TikTok. I’ll go check. Thanks.

Anyone know where I could watch it? NBC ain’t giving it up.

I love that bot because I can disagree with their assessment easily in a comment to it. The NYT is medium to low and they list it as high, not sure how that came up with high for them.

From my look at media publications:

🔺💲 New York Times

◾ Owned by The New York Times Company

It’s a publicly traded company with most of it being privately held, that owns a multitude of media types:

Since September 25, 1997, the company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. From April 27, 1967, until January 13, 1969, the company’s Class A common stock traded over the counter. From January 14, 1969, until September 24, 1997, the shares were traded on the American Stock Exchange. There are 2 categories of stock, Class A (publicly traded) and Class B (held privately—largely (over 90% through The 1997 Trust) by the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896.

◾ CEO and publisher is A.G. Slzberger

A.G. Slzberger

Arthur Gregg “Dash” Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist serving as the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times.

Sulzberger is a fourth-generation descendant of Adolph Ochs, who bought the New York Times in 1896. The Times has been managed and published by Adolph Ochs’s family since that date.

Sulzberger attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Brown University, graduating in 2003 with a major in political science. At Brown, Sulzberger worked briefly for The Brown Daily Herald as a contributing writer.

◾ Board of directors

As of February 2024:

• A. G. Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times
• Amanpal S. Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy
• Manuel Bronstein, CPO of Roblox
• Beth Brooke, former global vice chair of public policy for Ernst & Young
• Rachel Glaser, CFO of Etsy
• Arthur Golden, best-selling author of Memoirs of a Geisha
• Hays N. Golden, managing director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab
• Meredith Kopit Levien, president and CEO of The New York Times Company
• Brian P. McAndrews, former president, CEO, and chairman of Pandora Media
• David Perpich, publisher of The Athletic and Wirecutter
• John W. Rogers Jr., founder and chairman of Ariel Investments
• Anuradha B. Subramanian, CFO of Bumble
• Rebecca Van Dyck, former COO for Reality Labs at Meta Platforms

Source

This is their official page for the board of directors: https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/

Just in case: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

So you spent 10 years on a personal song about your family dying around you, it’s very personal, heartfelt and could be extremely successful because it’s said in a way that people won’t at first understand. You play it for your friends and they absolutely love it and encourage you to put it out. You don’t want to because it hurts too much. So you think everyone else has the "right"s to that song because it’s hoarding if you don’t release it? Come on, you don’t own my thoughts and creations, it’s selfish, greedy and a little narcissistic.

All the examples you have brought forward apply to private individuals. This is about cooperations and companies. Those very different legal entities.

That is not what some people here are saying, they want everything put out for copyright to be public domain. What’s hilarious is, that’s exactly what the AI hoovers want, they want everything anyone else makes. Especially the unique and creative artists. So these people in this thread want the same thing as these huge corporations everyone here hates.

Says someone that has never made anything. Do you think art, music, etc. comes magically out of nowhere? I don’t really care to fight about what the original intent of copyright is, artists and every person should own their own bodies, likeness, voices and creative outputs.

So? If you spent years making a movie, don’t you think you should keep the rights for the movie for awhile? I have many friends that have careers with their style of art.

I’m not against piracy in general, you should absolutely go after the evil corporations. I’m saying that for the small time artist, they need protections.

Overhauling copyright is not the same as getting rid of copyright. How about those artists that make original art, graphic novels or movies, how are they supposed to sustain themselves? Are you saying that the copyright is held too long?

Can I suggest sorting by new for your favorite communities? There are a lot of downvoters that have gamed the system.

Are you actually trying to start a phone vs pc debate? That’s funny as hell.

Do you think the corporations like my art and is it fair? Apparently it is if I run it through AI is what you’re saying.

https://imgur.com/a/these-are-new-niki-mice-drawings-phone-company-chainsaws-merms-donut-logos-burger-mc-winfruit-computers-republunch-political-party-logos-Rhgi0OC

Why do you think that the AI companies want to hoover up everyone’s art? Because it’s valuable or they wouldn’t take the risk of all of this backlash.