• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    Copyright licensing allows the owner to control how a work is distributed, not how it’s consumed.

    First of all, that’s incorrect.

    Secondly, by default you have zero rights to someone else’s work. If something doesn’t explicitly grant you rights, you have none. If there’s a law or license, and if it’s applicable to you, you get exactly what’s specified in there.

    The “personal use” or “fair use” exceptions in some places grant some basic rights but they are very narrow in scope and generally applicable only to individuals.