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Originally Posted by gmw
When you registered this is what you were told: "By contributing to this forum you grant us royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive permission to publish, use or edit your entry in any way deemed appropriate by us. You also grant us the right to translate your material into other languages."
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I went looking for that and couldn't find it. Is there a link to a TOS that explains that, or does it only show up during original registration?
As a side issue--it grants *the forum owners* the right to distribute one's works. (Which they need, or the content couldn't be distributed to other people's computers.) It doesn't grant every individual member of the forum the right to grab the contents of one's posts and use them at will. Certainly, there's no automatic right to repost all the ebooks here somewhere else. (Some are in public domain, but some are here by specific author permission.)
There's no right for someone in the forum to grab all of someone else's posts, edit them a bit, and sell a book of, oh, 'HarryT's ebook tips & tricks.' (Although the TOS bit mentioned above might allow the forum owners to do just that.)
It doesn't automatically grant the forum owners the right to assign third parties the right to use other people's copyrighted material, which quoting is. However, quoting-with-comments should fall well within fair use-esqe laws.