Hey pillowfort. I was wondering if you have a response to some people's concerns regarding the part of the TOS that gives pillowfort license to modify, redistribute, etc, the content that users upload. My impression of that part of the TOS is that it allows the site to do what it does, which is to upload images and videos to the pillowfort domain, adjust the size/compress if necessary, and similar functions. I was also wondering how you guys will handle art posted without artist's consent/theft.
You are right, that clause of the ToS is only there to allow us to display and distribute your content throughout our site. We certainly don’t intend to commodify user content to use in advertising, etc. or ever sell it to third parties. We also plan to revise our ToS in the near future to clear up certain areas like this one that often cause misunderstandings.
As for art theft, we certainly want artists to be able to report art to us that was posted without their permission. It can be a little tricky because we know there will be people, eventually, who may try to abuse this to get the works of an artist that they simply don’t like removed even if they were posted by the artist themselves, by posing as the artist and saying “This user is an imposter of me, the real artist, please delete their content/blog.” So if you are an artist who wants your reposted art removed from our site, you’ll have to provide us with some sort of proof that you are the actual artist in question whose works are being posted without permission. However this could be as simple as, if you have an online portfolio with your contact email displayed publicly, emailing us from that email address on your portfolio so we can verify you are the artist. It might seem a bit annoying, but I’m sure you can understand why we can’t just take the word of anyone who wants us to delete a user’s content from our site.
