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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9787697" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Very briefly- as a general rule, the creator of a work always owns the copyright.However, if you are using a social media platform, you've often given them broad and expansive rights to use your work (things you put on there) when you sign up. This is usually with a site's TOS. However, while a TOS can provide BIGSOCIAL really really expansive rights to use your work, it cannot magically remove the copyright from the creator.*A brief aside- the TOS stuff did make sense at the beginning ... there are questions and issues that arise when you post something and a website "copies it" or "displays it" or "uses it" - think about how various websites might take something you posted and put it in a "feed" or a different page or display it on someone else's page to let them know what you're up to. You wouldn't want people suing because of that (and yes, people would sue**). On the other hand ... you can be kind of SOL if the provider uses your content in an ... unexpected way (like training LLMs). But those TOS generally would not give a platform the right to, say, take your posts and publish them as a magazine. *Yet. I'm sure they are working on that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />**Copyright suits are distressingly common for small businesses that don't understand the internet. Pro tip- do not take a random image you find on the internet and use it on a commercial site. This should be common sense, but .... common sense ain't so common.</blockquote>

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