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Comment by Etheryte | Hacker News Reader

Did you ever stop to consider that you don't hold the rights to this content?

They used the official MIT-licensed dataset published by Y Combinator on BigQuery, so it’s not necessarily fair to blame OP here.

“This is not relevant to your point but I want to say that's an entirely third party project and we didn't even know about it for a long time. We don't publish data to them except in the sense that we publish it to everybody: https://github.com/HackerNews/API. I think their page gives a misleading impression that the project is somehow official, when it's not (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850991).” --dang at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022318

There is no such thing as an offical y combinator data

Thanks, good to know. Their page on BigQuery is very misleading.

Does Google hold the rights to this content? They've been providing a less capable version of this service for >25 years.

Fuzzy lines can be crossed.

What is the copyright on content which has been posted to HN?

I don't remember entering into any sort of contract or license agreement with HN (besides the obvious that HN can make zillions of copies of my work to show them to other users). Users have copyright to their posts and comments as expected.

I don’t remember entering into one with Reddit

FB, I think it was sort of implied.

We all did when we signed up, or if I suppose. Just not the recent ridiculous data training with no optout changes.

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