Hello, I see some people writing 1000 word replies in some threads and I would like to use them in my blog/site. Can I copy that content on my blog/site? May sound s+()p!d to some but I really wanna know. jhmattern is not online. Thats why I posted this thread. Thanks for your time.
Yeah. I do understand that and yeah the yeah that i used in the previous post was to say that yeah i understand that and i am also asking the same and thinking on the same lines. Yeah!
Insert standard "I'm not an attorney" clause here but this is my own official policy supported with legal findings of my own attorney and her staff. Officially it's plagiarism. For example, I point at the Associated Press and how they went after folks a few years back for doing just that even if you use just a small bit under fair use. References: http://boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/09/shepard-fairey-sues-ap-ov_n_165357.html http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/wh...ted-press-accusing-of-copyright-infringement/ And about a billion more. In my neck of the woods, we allow it with the linked credit back under fair use. If the original creator raises an objection though, the site owner will have to remove it. The content must be shown as being copied (We suggest blockquote) from another source and it has to be clear that it's not theirs. It is plagiarism though if you don't get permission. What's ironic about this is I got a C&D this morning concerning a client and their use of 150 pixels wide image thumbnails. I can point at a couple of legal findings where that's allowed under fair use. The client has links back and everything. Haven't talked to the attorneys on that one but we may come back with a "not covered by the DMCA" response on that one.
I have seen various sites indexing the links of digital point forums. And I am sure they must be getting good hits too. Thats the whole reason.
So does that mean the poster owns the content and not the forum owner? I have wondered this for a long time, more out of curiosity than anything. If so and someone copied a whole forum, wouldn't it mean each user of every post would need to request it be taken down until the whole copied forum no longer contained content? This happened to a bird forum i am a member of, and we couldn't do anything.
I would think it would depend on the legal terms of usage of the forums. Many forums I use, there's a clause in there that the content of your post becomes the property of the forum owner and you grant them all rights to it. Some forums allow the poster to retain the rights but yet grant a license to the forum owner to do what they want with it. If you caught someone copying a site, a complaint from the forum owner would be enough as rights are given by the poster to the forum owner to manage their posts. The site is also the forum owner's and they have the right to manage it. Unless of course they grant rights to others under CC and allow copying and republication and all that. If there's no removal, contacting the host followed by the datacenter will almost always get the problem resolved after that. I know of only a couple datacenters who will not deal with a copyright concern. They don't want the legal hassle over it.
I see thanks. It just seems really "murky" who owns forum content, and who can do what with it. I re-read the Digitalpoint one again that you have to agree to: That's all it says about content, which appears to be a cookie cutter template that all forums with this software type has. With a web site it's fairly defined, but when a page is a mixture of numerous users content it seems to get blurry. I am thinking of making my own forum, so was curious how this part works.