Seems their is some doubt to where users can copy posts from one forum to another.Some have claimed that these post are copyrighted.I even had a forum once tell me I could not copy and paste posts from their site.

Max if I am breaking any rules here speaking of other forums in a general way it was the only way I could state what I was wanting to say.

1= Any content added to a web site after it has been copyrighted must be resubmitted for another copyright to be protected according to a legal copyright firm.

2=fair use of any copyright consisits for purposes of comment and news and non-commercial use.

3=All though post may belong to a forum in general they are the property
of the posters in terms of copyright.One cant not copyright anothers person work without consent.

4=Just a question if a site was trying to claim copyright on posts that are not copyrighted are they infringing the law.


I would like to hear some ideas on this lots folks afraid to copy and paste anymore lol

Whether the forum or the poster owns the post has never been firmly established. I have seen disputes go both ways. But posts are owned by one or the other, not by third parties.

That means you should get permission before copying.

You should ask the author, and usually providing a linkback and credit to the forum is acceptable. Not sure how Max keeps it here - it's his call.

This is just common courtesy and not necessarily the law.

If something like this ended up in court, my guess would be that the author has the copyright but waves it for the posting. Once on a website, that website also has rights to it's content.

Third parties have no rights to copy.

I am not a lawyer though.

You also need to consider that Google and other engines penalize for duplicate content. If you copy from other sites, you hurt them and yourself.

Good post but you fail to to address the fair use which is in every copyright law would like to hear your opinion that.

Just found this great link may explain some of the questions.

http://www.gocopyright.com/guide.htm

Ps google wins lawsuit over copyright infringement courts ruled it was fair use for google to copy and store copys of websites.

Where did this come from?Of course the poster owns the post the forum owner can move edit or delete but never has ownership of a post.

Well I have a question then, if the poster owns the post, should the moderator or admin of a forum have the right to change the wording in the post without the original posters consent? Furthermore not telling others reading it that the wording has been changed? The reason I ask this is, recently I have seen this happen to someone at another forum, the words were all changed around and edited to other words, and I do not find that right or moral at all.