I thought stuff like “Explain Like I’m Five” and “AMA” was proprietary to the community, or at least the Reddit community, not Reddit as a company.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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    29 days ago

    I don’t even think most of these would hold up in court unless they add “r/” in front of them. Reddit reserves the non-exclusive right to use user content however they want, and I don’t think this includes making user-submitted phrases their trademarks. I haven’t read the ToS though so another clause might reserve this right too. There might be a claim to words like “subreddit”, “r/” and “RPAN” and derivatives because they are based off the “Reddit” trademark.

    • uxia@midwest.socialEnglish
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      29 days ago

      I’m sure the fine upstanding folks working so earnestly as corporate lawyers will think of something. :D