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He doesn't want to let us use his comment for commercial purposes, which is a shame. I don't know how I'm going to pay for dinner now.
You joke but when "media" outlets boldly steal 90% of their content directly from reddit posts and comments without attribution for commercial use, maybe including a license isnt crazy anymore?
They're already stealing the content. You think a license is going to stop them from doing it anyway? Who says this license is valid in any jurisdiction that the comment is being held on (yay federation!)? Who says that a random user submitting something to a public forum where data is stored by third parties in order to run that forum can be licensed anyway?
If my server makes me money in some form, and you submit stuff after the fact and license it yourself, that doesn't magically apply nor does it bind the server owners to anything. Unfortunately the comment you submit to a homeserver doesn't actually belong to you at that point.
Case and point, the community we're in !linux says licensed under CC BY 3.0, and this user claims CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, but the community has not necessarily given him the right to post ANY license attached to his comment and still post. conflicting licenses would be at play. And this is ignoring that lemmy.ml may not have granted either !linux OR the user to apply their own license to content, you know... since they're storing the data and own the server/service.
It would take even the most junior of lawyer to get it thrown out. Especially since it's fair use to report on the goings on of public. Even if that reporting agency makes money by reporting on the comment.
It's a bit out there, but I see why he does it. It is a shame that the media has sunk to such lows.