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supersexyponies:

stupidcoolfinnparty:

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are you kidding me

This isn’t clop but I have a feeling I have some clop artists following me that could use this information if it is true.

I call bullshit!

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. If you need serious legal advice, please consult a qualified professional.

First let’s not delve into the actual changes and just take this on its face. According to the third image, this concerns original (created by you) and uncopyrighted (no copyright or you don’t own the copyright) content. This can only mean that the content is in the public domain, in which case anyone can use the work for any purpose. Essentially, you no longer own the work.

Most original work is copyrighted. In most countries copyright is granted when a work is recorded in some tangible medium, including an electronic one. That means when you make something new, you automatically own the copyright.

Now, I may be misinterpreting “original” (and maybe “uncopyrighted”), so let’s look at the fourth image. So Tumblr can exploit content for which you don’t own the copyright? What if someone else owns it and you posted it (legally or illegally)? That would get Tumblr in a lot of legal trouble.

Now let’s look at the actual terms. What I think is being referenced here is Section 6:

“Subscribers retain ownership and/or other applicable rights in Subscriber Content, and Tumblr and/or third parties retain ownership and/or other applicable rights in all Content other than Subscriber Content.” Uh…we are subscribers, so we own our content.

“When you provide Subscriber Content to Tumblr through the Services, you grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to conform it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Services are available), and create derivative works of, such Subscriber Content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purposes of allowing Tumblr to operate the Services in accordance with their functionality, improve the Services, and develop new Services. [emphasis added] The reference in this license to ‘creat[ing] derivative works’ is not intended to give Tumblr a right to make substantive editorial changes or derivations, but does, for example, enable ’reblogging,’ [emphasis in original] which allows Tumblr Subscribers to redistribute Subscriber Content from one Tumblr blog to another in a manner that allows them to add their own text or other Content before or after your Subscriber Content.”
This is pretty standard language that you can find on the ToS of pretty much every site with user-generated content. All it means is that you are letting Tumblr use your stuff for the purposes of the site.

Please consider what I have said about copyright before I looked at the actual terms, and if there is something in the terms that seems off, please point out exactly where it is.

*End call.*

Original staff post.

EDIT: I have made a few formatting changes for clarity and readability. Also, I have made some grammatical corrections (“look that the” to “look at the”, “ToSes” to “ToS”).