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if you "100% own" your answers, how does the site have permission to display them to other users?



Terms can be drawn up so that you 100% own the content, but you grant the site a license to display your content on their site alone (and possibly indicate it must be only shown in original context, their search results, etc)

This allows full intended use but not ability to sell your answers to marketers, repackage as a book, etc.

Or they could go entirely in the other direction, and make all content on their site Creative Commons.




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