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raddr
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 Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:51 am Post subject: Please observe copyright rules when posting |
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Hi all,
Kramer has alerted me to a new form of ambulance chasing out there, i.e. suing internet forum owners for copyright infringement:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/
As I am not anxious to be victimized by this, I am asking all of you to post only small snippets of articles you link to, no more than 50% or so, as well as providing the link to the story.
If you forget to do this, I will delete all but a few sentences of your article so as to keep us out of trouble. Thanks for your cooperation.
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mickeyd
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Please observe copyright rules when posting |
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| raddr wrote: | Hi all,
Kramer has alerted me to a new form of ambulance chasing out there, i.e. suing internet forum owners for copyright infringement:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/
As I am not anxious to be victimized by this, I am asking all of you to post only small snippets of articles you link to, no more than 50% or so, as well as providing the link to the story.
If you forget to do this, I will delete all but a few sentences of your article so as to keep us out of trouble. Thanks for your cooperation.
raddr |
I thought that this was always the rule.
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kcowan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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The netiquette is to supply the link, include a snippet in quotes and then comment on why this particular link is worth reading.
Let's face it, what interests some poster is of no interest to others.
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kramer
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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It has always been the rule, but now there are active ambulance chasers out there.
I can recall way back when, when intercst had a forum, it was shut down for this reason (I think by MSN). Nowadays, he could also have been sued.
The liability is not wide open like a doctor or driver faces on a daily basis, but for someone kind enough to run a forum we should take steps to avoid these sorts of problems for them. And presumably the real identity of any poster is just a subpoena away.
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raddr
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| kramer wrote: | And presumably the real identity of any poster is just a subpoena away.
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Yeah, I'm thinking that we all have liability here. Me for owning the forum and members who break the copyright rules. This whole thing spooks me a bit. I did have a WSJ writer ask me to take down one article quoted in full by one of our members a few months which of course I removed immediately. I guess I should have realized that lawyers would leech onto this process at some point.
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Nords
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| raddr wrote: | | I guess I should have realized that lawyers would leech onto this process at some point. |
The good news is that they're raising your hit count...
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kcowan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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It is amazing how many hits I get when searching for a specific article by quoting the opening sentence. There are 1000s of blogs that replicate stuff verbatim. Sometimes it is stuff that has been flagged as urban legend too.
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