Originally posted by exhausted:
Originally posted by OverLordd:
P.S. Mose... these are my thoughts and they are my intellectual property, and definally not lon's in any way shape or form.
Should I take this to mean that you do not accept the terms and conditions that you accepted upon registration?
Jena Martin
Forum Moderator
Jena
Are you saying that the terms & conditions rule that all thoughts must be Lon's and not you're own [Confused]
because that's what OL was saying - that these writings came from his mind and not Lon's....if that's the case I would never have accepted the terms & agreements either
The rule in question is stated on the very bottom of each page of the forum. It states that submissons to this site become the property of Woodbury Reports, Inc. and taking anything from this site and using it elsewhere is a copyright violation.
This is pretty standard for internet forums. It is nothing out of the ordinary from what I have seen.
Jena
However... a lawyer on another forum (who basically said the same thing as my neighbor IP attorney): "Because copyright (at least in the U.S.) is fairly difficult to actually transfer to someone else, the author of a post is almost always the copyright holder. In the Terms of Service, the author probably agrees to give the forum a license to use the material, but the author would still be the person who could give you permission to re-use it (under whatever limits the TOS might put on it).
there might be some newspapers that actually get copyright to the letters they print.
Transfer of copyright needs to be done in writing, signed (physically, on paper) by the copyright holder. there are some publications that will contact the writers of the material they decide to print and ask them to transfer copyright. there should be a notice on the Letters to the Editor page stating whether the author or the newspaper owns the copyright.
As soon as something is put into a "fixed form" (which includes being published on the web), it's automatically copyrighted. So unless something specifically says it's in the public domain, assume that it's copyrighted. "
So technically.. I infringed on Jena (by posting her text in full) who infringed on Exhausted, who infringed on Jena, who infringed on OverLordd... Nobody infringed on ST.
So. Keep in mind... whatever you write, you own. Period.
