Reddit does not own the user-generated content on its platform. Its users do. Reddit’s own user agreement says so. But last October, Reddit served SerpApi, Perplexity, and two other webscraping companies with a lawsuit making absurd claims of copyright protections over information that its users post. The lawsuit was
  • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Hmmm…

    I wonder if it would be possible for a lawsuit to open up Reddit to banned users who still have their accounts who also want to delete their content. All I could get at was the prior years worth of comments I made, but the earlier 14 years worth is still there, but unreachable.

    If I can’t play the game anymore, I would like to take my ball and bat back before I leave, thankyouverymuch.