Questions tagged [licensing]
Questions about the licensing of content on Stack Exchange sites.
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Preparing for the company to breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA license [closed]
I am expecting that at some point in the future and possibly quite soon, the company will breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence that I grant to them as a content creator.
As is my right, when this ...
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Do I own and retain all rights (copyright) to all the content posted on my profile page? [duplicate]
Does the 'public Network' include content on the profile page such as the profile picture and display name?
Does the answer to Do I have to give attribution to SO when using my own content elsewhere? ...
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If I delete my answers from SO (as of 12 May 2024), is it too late for Prosus to give them to OpenAI? What's the situation with deleted answers?
In the Prosus-OpenAI deal, what is the situation with deleted answers, please?
Can / will deleted answers be given to OpenAI to use as training?
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Why are people so unhappy about the OpenAI partnership? Am I missing something?
I'm reading the answers at Our Partnership with OpenAI, and a lot of people seem very unhappy about the partnership.
I feel violated, cheated upon, betrayed, and exploited.
And so on. But... why? ...
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How do I remove my contributions from Stack Exchange, in the event of a license violation?
Stack Exchange is now partnering with OpenAI. While the company has received a commitment from OpenAI that attribution will be maintained, and the company has not relicensed our contributions (as of ...
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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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YouTube Channels Stealing SE Network Content
Although this has been reported before (1, 2), and the current canonical guidance for how to approach sites or scrapers copying SE content is also available, I wanted to share information that I have ...
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How should I inform a user I'm using their answer in a book?
I used my popular question Do Projects Ever End Early? as the basis of a book I wrote. (Available for free, for a limited time, here.)
What is the appropriate protocol to inform the 14 users whose ...
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Are Stack Exchange blog articles also under Creative Common license?
Recently I stumbled on the site of an IT company that replicated the entire article "Do large language models know what they are talking about?" with attribution.
For basic content on the ...
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Does linked content count as "Subscriber Content" under the TOS?
The SE TOS defines "Subscriber Content" as:
any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or ...
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Posting content under licenses besides CC BY-SA 4.0
If I post content (authored by me) on an SE site, and I have released it under some license X, how does this work with the SE TOS (even though it links to SO I assume it's applicable to all sites ...
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Is SE in violation of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license by not providing data dumps?
SE is no longer providing data dumps for the content contributed by their users.
CC BY-SA 4.0 states:
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally ...
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Stopping data dumps to "protect data" - harmful and threatening to the community
I find it a bit odd that "senior leadership is working on a strategy to protect Stack Overflow data from being misused by companies building LLMs", but historically has only cared about ...
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How can SE gate access to the Dump that will allow individuals access to the data while preventing "misuse" by for-profit organizations?
I read this answer written by Jody Bailey:
We are looking for ways to gate access to the Dump, APIs, and SEDE, that will allow individuals access to the data while preventing misuse by organizations ...
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Will SE tell us if they sell our content?
So, the CEO of Stack Exchange has been quoted in a news article saying that they plan to sell the content of the SE network to large companies training neural networks like the one used for ChatGPT. ...
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