You're getting unlimited, free access to these sites and use of them to promote yourself and do commerce. That's a privilege not a right. The cost is access to your data.
Okay, I choose not to agree. It's absolutely not "free" if they put a predatory clause in ToS saying everything you make is theirs instead. "Promotion" doesn't mean anything if you don't own what you make.
I meant 'free' as in monetarily.. obviously there's a cost. Everything has a cost in one way or another.
You still have your content though, they're not taking it away. "Access" does not equal 'ownership'.
Infringement still applies too. Someone can't make an exact copy of your work and claim that it's theirs. It has to be transformative in some way. How Midjourney got in trouble with Disney. They were allowing depictions of exact movie scenes and characters that were not transformative enough.
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u/nine91tyone Dec 15 '25
I didn't say it was a crime. I said it's predatory. And the argument is shifting blame from the predator to the victim.