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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by toomuchtodo on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:24AM (#16959356)
If you give someone a license to reproduce a digital asset, you lose the ability to revoke access to it.

All other rights are reserved. Would it change the dynamic to be able to revoke access to assets in a private messaging system? For sure. But copyright law (at least in the US) supports this right of the copyright owner. The inability to revoke access is a failing of the tool or the product, not the law.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by goatforce5 on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:32AM (#16959438)
Isn't it pretty standard for website T&Cs to say something along the lines of "by uploading content to this website you are providing [website owner] with a license to reproduce the content"? Sometimes those T&Cs will be quite broad - non-revokable, across all media (including forms not yet imagined).

> The inability to revoke access is a failing of the tool or the product, not the law.

Does the law need to change? Or (in the case of email) is it fine as is because the reasonable person realizes that once you hit 'send', the content is out of your control?

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