If a publication platform enables user contributed content and that content is managed by the platform, e.g. annotations or comments, the platform’s Terms of Use should clearly define the rights related to that content, especially if they may wish to preserve it or migrate it as part of the context of the publication. If a publication is likely to be archived with this context intact, the implementation of these features and their associated terms should factor in ethical consideration of how a user’s information is displayed on the platform, and how they are informed about and consent to the use of the content.
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55. Ethical concerns of user-contributed content
70. Consider systematically tagging material that should be excluded from preservation
PubPub supports features that allow users to contribute content through annotations and comments. This content is integrated into the page and can’t be excluded from web crawls. The default PubPub Terms of Service template includes language that covers User-Generated Content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License:
By submitting User-Generated Content, you hereby make that User-Generated Content available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to provide your User Generated Content under that license, that all of that User Generated Content is either authored by you, or provided by third parties under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License or in the public domain, and that your User Generated Content contains no personally identifiable information of third parties who have not expressly authorized you to provide it as part of your User Generated Content. All of your User-Generated Content must be appropriately marked with licensing and attribution information.
These terms allow for preservation of User-Generated Content on PubPub.