Re: Important Threads/Info & Poor Behavior
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:49 pm
Dot and Mac_File, I see the Mystonline forums are in very capable hands!
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I kind of touched on that, but in a less explicit way, in the section on Vandalism in my earlier post. On another forum I work with, which deals with technical, industrial matters we have a Copyright policy statement that says that all contributions to the website are considered to be published by the group and the property of the group unless the submitted material carries a copyright statement to the contrary. This allows the group to use submissions and rework it into technical papers, presentations etc., without too much concern over copyright issues, because we can clearly see where rights are reserved. But it's a small group of professional people with agreed common aims, so there's no squabbling That said, I know of one very similar group operating a related field that has largely broken into two opposing factions .Marten wrote:Second, and I'll mention this only because I didn't see it explicitly pointed out previously in this discussion, I believe the rules of content ownership - aka, copyright - are key to determining what is the correct (or at least, legal) course of action when important information has been deleted from a forum. As far as I know, Cyan does not declare ownership over content posted at the MOUL forums, so I'm presuming that copyright remains the wishes of the individual authors.