Tag: Tos

Some websites with user-generated content do allow many different kinds of adult and pornographic content. However, there are boundaries, and there are people who sometimes cross those boundaries. If it’s out of ignorance, please read through and make any necessary changes.

IMPORTANT: These notes are not replacements for the actual terms of service/use of the websites mentioned. Full original pages are linked; please read them and any other pages with relevant policies.

• Tumblr has Community Guidelines that restrict certain content:
  • Flag your blogs as NSFW. If you post adult content and haven’t done this already, go to your settings and enable the option “Flag this blog as NSFW.” It may have been done by Tumblr’s staff already. (EDIT: Removed a redundant “already”) (More information on NSFW flagging)
  • Don’t upload sexually explicit video. Instead, upload it on another website and embed it.
  • Don’t post depictions of harm to minors. I always refer to this post when this issue comes up.
• Twitter has Rules that govern content:
  • Mark your media as sensitive. If you post adult content, consider going to your account settings and enable the option “Mark media I tweet as containing material that may be sensitive.” With this option, others will see a warning before they view content you post (unless they have the option “Do not inform me before showing media that may be sensitive” enabled).
  • Don’t use “obscene or pornographic images” in your profile picture, header, or background. I assume this is because there is no way to warn a user about a potentially sensitive profile/header/background image.
• DeviantArt has an Etiquette Policy that concerns art and messages, as well as a help page about mature content:
  • Pornography is forbidden. I think most deviantArt users are aware of this restriction.
  • Tag your art appropriately. There are different tags for marking sensitive material (not just of the sexual sort).

needs-more-pony:

eternal-era-twilight:

hakkariliiong:

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

just because you’re confused doesn’t mean it’s out to steal your fucking drawings oh my god

“granting them use” literally means that they can use it for log in screens, resize it for mobile blogging, and have the ability to store it at all. granting “derivative works” as they defined, means that other people can reblog it, otherwise there’s just a bunch of copies of your art out there on people’s blogs and you could sue with that loophole

christ people quit crying wolf, it’s fucking annoying and you’re scaring the kids who have a hard time understanding legal talk. quit making petitions to change something that DIDN’T EVEN HAPPEN oh my god

ah, thank you I was waiting for this to confirm my suspicions

This feels like how on deviantArt people keep reposting journals about threats that have been confirmed fake, especially ones that 4 years old be now.

Hopefully this provides a lesson on how you need to carefully read everything before you post it, some people might be impatient but you also have to remember you could harm others with rushing and getting the wrong info, and you could always have someone help you or take breaks if needed.

You also need to find proof of if its real, it could have easily been made by an unofficial source just to cause a panic on purpose because such a person could be like that.

My thoughts exactly.

Well, a bit more forceful than my polemic, but it’s pretty much the same information.

supersexyponies:

stupidcoolfinnparty:

:/

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”).