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Originally Posted by HarryT
Their terms sound pretty much the same as ours, actually (except the use of the poster's full name part). When you registered with MR, this is what you agreed to:
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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.
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I think you'll find that pretty much every online forum has something similar. |
I would have thought that the MR agreement was a grant of specific rights by the user to MR, rather than full transfer of copyright as appears to be being claimed for this KBoards thing. Yes, the grant is pretty broad, but it seems to me there are a few distinctions:
* It is not clear to me that MR would have the right to on-sell those rights; this is usually a distinct aspect of copyright and one not explicitly covered by the agreement.
* The agreement explicitly speaks of "non-exclusive permission to publish" which I interpret as saying that the user is entitled to also publish the content of their posts elsewhere. If full copyright has been transferred this would not be the case.