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derefr on March 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many ...

> it permits reproducing on GitHub only. Any copying from GitHub not granted by way of another license would be a violation of the author's copyright.

If you grant Github a right to reproduce your IP, but no further rights, do people have a right to view Github's reproduction of your IP?

dragonwriter on March 2, 2017 [–]

Viewing is not a right protected by copyright, so no license is required for that.

hobarrera on March 2, 2017 | [–]

Viewing: Nope. Projecting it on a conference: Depends.

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