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 and consent to the use of the content.
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55. Ethical concerns of user-contributed content