> each comment is automatically copyrighted by the poster
This is why services usually make it a condition of being allowed to post in the first place that you grant them a worldwide perpetual irrevocable license to the content, via the EULA.
And you can see why: having to ask all the users for permission in the future is completely infeasible, so just ask once upfront for everything.
It’s not infeasible it’s just not in the near term economic interest of the server owner to help facilitate the commenter’s rights
This is one of the biggest STRUCTURAL issues with the legal structure of property - you are not incentivized for supporting a common good.
The technology to build an embeddable comment widget on top of a framework that would compensate commenters based on their inputs is trivial at this point.
Good luck funding such a project though because every source of capital wants infinite return. So unless you’re willing to volunteer your technical time or have your own money to spend nobody will create and grow services like that because the economic incentives aren’t aligned between people who want to invest and … society at large at this point
This is why services usually make it a condition of being allowed to post in the first place that you grant them a worldwide perpetual irrevocable license to the content, via the EULA.
And you can see why: having to ask all the users for permission in the future is completely infeasible, so just ask once upfront for everything.