@Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoCan we recreate old Reddit on Lemmy by just copy/paste old questions and answers and replace searches on Google eventually?message-square22fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down122
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1message-squareCan we recreate old Reddit on Lemmy by just copy/paste old questions and answers and replace searches on Google eventually?@Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-square@fubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•1 year agoLegally? No, that would be copyright infringement, unless you tracked down the original authors and got their permission. The copyright on all those questions and answers belongs to the people who wrote them. Reddit has (under its ToS) a perpetual license from those people to publish that copyrighted work. You don’t.
minus-square@Camzing@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilink1•1 year agoOopy question /paste answer is a bad idea but copy question /update answer is better.
Legally? No, that would be copyright infringement, unless you tracked down the original authors and got their permission.
The copyright on all those questions and answers belongs to the people who wrote them.
Reddit has (under its ToS) a perpetual license from those people to publish that copyrighted work.
You don’t.
Oopy question /paste answer is a bad idea but copy question /update answer is better.
I wish them all the best enforcing that, lol.