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@staff opt out isn't good enough, it needs to be off by default, we went through this with DeviantArt. In Gardner v. Nike, Inc., 279 F. 3d 774 (9th Cir. 2002), the Court found that an exclusive licensee whose license was silent as to a right of assignment could not assign that license without the copyright holder's express consent.

While you can sell SOME metadata, you cant sell the works, images, text (including for ai training) of users or works they post which you don't know for a fact is even theirs. It immediately violates their sovereignty to their copyright ,

To keep it simple, your agreement is limited to showing works for the purpose of showing works, promoting the site, or the users, that is all. You cant repurpose their copyright.

Logging in to tumblr after the 17th

so long and thanks for all the fish