Well, I've only seen some games notify of an updated TOS. Which, since my TOS is basically rehashing my rights as copyright owner, all I really need to do is specify what you ARE allowed to do. The rest is automatically disallowed. Websites basically never notify, from what I've seen.
That's not how the law works. At all. If you don't explicitly state a user can or cannot do something, the user can do that action without penalty.
And by not notifying they run the risk of getting in trouble with both their userbase and the law, as AOL did in the 90s. You may have updated the TOS but a failure to inform all users of that change does forefit your ability to complain that users are not notified. You have to actively inform the userbase of the change for it to be permissible to enforce. As no attempt was made at outreach that argument is invalid :/
Copyright law states that I own all rights to images I create unless I state that I give some of those rights away. And every time I change my TOS, I have it give a notification, but it's just a rehash of all the rights I'm not giving away, which legally I still have.
You own the image, yes, but you also sold over some usage rights to it with attribution - which I stated before.
And again, having your TOS give a notification works /if I was following you/. I am not your follower and as such would not be notified. There was no notification given /to me/ of the updates or even of the existence of the TOS, not at the adoption of the design or the subsequent year after.
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Well, I've only seen some games notify of an updated TOS. Which, since my TOS is basically rehashing my rights as copyright owner, all I really need to do is specify what you ARE allowed to do. The rest is automatically disallowed. Websites basically never notify, from what I've seen.
7 years, 2 months ago
That's not how the law works. At all. If you don't explicitly state a user can or cannot do something, the user can do that action without penalty.
And by not notifying they run the risk of getting in trouble with both their userbase and the law, as AOL did in the 90s. You may have updated the TOS but a failure to inform all users of that change does forefit your ability to complain that users are not notified. You have to actively inform the userbase of the change for it to be permissible to enforce. As no attempt was made at outreach that argument is invalid :/
7 years, 2 months ago
Copyright law states that I own all rights to images I create unless I state that I give some of those rights away. And every time I change my TOS, I have it give a notification, but it's just a rehash of all the rights I'm not giving away, which legally I still have.
7 years, 2 months ago
You own the image, yes, but you also sold over some usage rights to it with attribution - which I stated before.
And again, having your TOS give a notification works /if I was following you/. I am not your follower and as such would not be notified. There was no notification given /to me/ of the updates or even of the existence of the TOS, not at the adoption of the design or the subsequent year after.
7 years, 2 months ago