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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:25PM (#14228560)
> What if the EULA of every major social network and photo sharing service, grants that service ownership and commercial usage of all of the content that you create with them?

Courts would consider it an overreach, and that specific clause would be nullified.

You can't take everything from another party while offering no compensation and expect a court to uphold it.

EDIT: Disclaimer: Not a lawyer. Not your lawyer.

Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by devrandomguy on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:59PM (#14228706)
I know you didn't intend that as legal advice, but I sure hope that you are correct nonetheless. From the article:

> It’s also worth noting that in agreeing to the company’s T&Cs Tinder users grant it a “worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, modify and distribute” their content — though it’s less clear whether that would apply in this case where a third-party developer is scraping Tinder data and releasing it under a public domain license.

Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 29, 2017 @05:06PM (#14228748)
IANAL, but my understanding of contract law is that consideration is required:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration

https://nationalparalegal.edu/public_documents/courseware_as...

"The idea of consideration is vital to contract law because, in order for a contract to be enforceable, there must be “mutuality of obligation.” In other words, in order for a contract to be valid, both parties to the contract must be required to perform under the contract. Consideration, which represents the commitment that the parties to the contract make to each other, is at the heart of the “mutuality of obligation” rule and, therefore, without consideration, a contract will not be enforceable."