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amichal | 11 months ago

Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are:

https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both:

"You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownership over user-generated content or materials, and the user * doesn't need to waive any moral rights* by posting owned content."

and

"You waive your moral rights"

Edit: I have no energy for figuring out which of these statements is more true.

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Y_Y|11 months ago

I think in such a case (unless there was some context that clearly showed the difference between those two statements) then you as a user would benefit from contra proferentem. This legal principle (which is explicit law in some jurisdictions) says that the contract terms should be interpreted in favour of the party who did not write them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem

actionfromafar|11 months ago

Also not a thing possible to do, depending on jurisdiction.

shadowwwind|11 months ago

True. Currently it's practice at ToS;DR to show the worst version. Usually the one for the USA