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TV Tropes Relicensed its Content - Without Permit

posted by Woods on Thursday May 15 2014, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the content-of-this-article-is-SFW dept.

LowID writes:

In the beginning, pop culture wiki TV Tropes licensed its content with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license for free content.

When Google pulled out its AdSense revenue because of... let's call it NSFW fan fiction, TV Tropes changed its guidelines to forbid tropes about mature content. In response to this move, two forks were eventually created. The admins disliked this move so much that they changed its license notice to the Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike version, despite their site not having requested copyright rights from their users. Only later they added a clause to their Terms of use page requiring all contributors to grant the site irrevocable, exclusive ownership of their edits.

I suppose the morale of the story is, if you contributed to TV Tropes before summer 2012, you should know they're distributing your content under a license that you didn't give them permission to use.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by NowhereMan on Friday May 16 2014, @03:34AM

    by NowhereMan (3980) on Friday May 16 2014, @03:34AM (#44092)

    What does NSFW stand for?

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by iwantedue on Friday May 16 2014, @03:42AM

    by iwantedue (2239) on Friday May 16 2014, @03:42AM (#44094) Homepage

    NSFW = Not Safe For Work

    • (Score: 1) by NowhereMan on Friday May 16 2014, @03:58AM

      by NowhereMan (3980) on Friday May 16 2014, @03:58AM (#44100)

      I knew about that one but it didn't seam right until just now when it dawned on me what that meant...I was coming at it from the wrong direction.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by deimtee on Friday May 16 2014, @10:48AM

        by deimtee (3272) on Friday May 16 2014, @10:48AM (#44150) Journal

        I knew about that one but it didn't seam right until just now when it dawned on me what that meant...I was coming at it from the wrong direction.

        Yeah, that pretty much qualifies as NSFW.

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      • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday May 16 2014, @01:28PM

        by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday May 16 2014, @01:28PM (#44182) Homepage Journal

        I knew about that one but it didn't seam right

        Dew knot truss yore spill checker.

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        • (Score: 1) by NowhereMan on Saturday May 17 2014, @07:56PM

          by NowhereMan (3980) on Saturday May 17 2014, @07:56PM (#44694)

          Okay you got me, so I missed one. For the record I don't just rely on my spell checker I have 2 dictionaries on the shelf next to me and I use them often. In this case I just didn't notice I chose the wrong spelling in my haste to send the comment.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by fishybell on Friday May 16 2014, @03:45AM

    by fishybell (3156) on Friday May 16 2014, @03:45AM (#44095)

    What does NSFW stand for?

    The only time posting a goatse link would be modded informative I can't bring myself to do it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 16 2014, @03:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 16 2014, @03:58AM (#44099)

      I admire that kink of self-control.

      Note: I tried to type "kind" but it was auto-corrected to "kink" so WTF. Might as well leave it.

      • (Score: 1) by MostCynical on Friday May 16 2014, @07:27AM

        by MostCynical (2589) on Friday May 16 2014, @07:27AM (#44122) Journal

        I admire your kink and his self control.

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