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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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?
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I knew I had seen it on registration, so I waited until I logged in again to be able to copy it to here. Don't know if there are any other ways to see it.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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I suspect any quoting of posts from this forum back into this forum (ie. still published on this forum) would probably be considered acceptable (even if only from the perspective that it's obviously to all when you participate here that that is what will happen), whereas quoting, by third parties, outside this forum would not be acceptable (except as far as fair-use may carry it).
Otherwise that's pretty much the way I read it - and think that that interpretation mostly sounds fair and appropriate, all except the bit about the
forum owners being able to sell a book of HarryT's ebook tips, I think that would get up my nose a bit.