It's not like centralized platforms absorbed the work of "volunteers" for profit only recently... they have done so for many years. So yeah, if you are living off "content creation", you should definitely invest some effort and/or money into establishing your own or at least a decentralized platform.
The people who built/run the Nebula online streaming video to shy away from this sort of thing are probably feeling pretty good about themselves right now. Youtube video creators are probably sweating bullets right now. A lot of people "invested" in youtube channels over the years, according to this, youtube owns the IP (or at least, branding) of channels like Mr. Beast, Veratasium, etc etc
It looks like specifically what happened is that Reddit filed for the trademark "WallStreetBets" in 2021. Rogozinsky then filed to have the trademark suspended or revoked - presumably on the grounds that he and not Reddit had created it.
And recently Rogozinsky lost this case. This establishes the trademark WallStreetBets as owned by Reddit (for the uses for which they filed), and given that, they can control use of the trademark. By, for example, banning its use by others for whatever reason - the reas
Creation established copyright as per the Berne convention, social media site ToS notwithstanding... which doesn't matter here.
The trademark of 'WallStreetBets' was established by using it commercially, which happened the moment Reddit inserted ad content as someone surfed the subreddit.
Which sucks, is unfair, etc... but also American law.
The people who built/run the Nebula online streaming video to shy away from this sort of thing are probably feeling pretty good about themselves right now. Youtube video creators are probably sweating bullets right now. A lot of people "invested" in youtube channels over the years, according to this, youtube owns the IP (or at least, branding) of channels like Mr. Beast, Veratasium, etc etc
And recently Rogozinsky lost this case. This establishes the trademark WallStreetBets as owned by Reddit (for the uses for which they filed), and given that, they can control use of the trademark. By, for example, banning its use by others for whatever reason - the reas
Creation established copyright as per the Berne convention, social media site ToS notwithstanding... which doesn't matter here.
The trademark of 'WallStreetBets' was established by using it commercially, which happened the moment Reddit inserted ad content as someone surfed the subreddit.
Which sucks, is unfair, etc... but also American law.