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In Reply to: RE: Machina Dynamica (aka Geoff Kait) infringes on my intellectual property posted by Audioquest4life on July 23, 2007 at 12:07:07
When a site requires registration to post, it is clearly spelled out.
Cheers, John
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I don't know of any online community that requires you to surrender your copyrights as a condition for posting. Some will require you to agree to specific uses (such as using your material to promote their website only on their website). Blanket forfeiture of your copyright is unreasonable and unheard of.
IMPORTANT: All posts made in the Audioholics Forums become and remain the property of Audioholics (previously copyrighted works notwithstanding - which are illegal to post in the forums). Membership is optional and we reserve the right to keep, delete, modify or otherwise manipulate and/or publish any photos, text or data submitted to these forums. If you want something kept private, don't publish it in a public forum!
Did you copyright the material in question??
John
John,Any material that you originally create is automatically copyrighted per the Berne Copyright Convention. You don't need to file with the US (or any government for that matter) copyright office in order to copyright a material. FYI: this post of mine was copyrighted the nanosecond I wrote it. So was your's.
Audioholics rules are unreasonable and legally ambiguous. I would hesitate to post content I wish protected on a discussion forum with such an irrational and unclear set of rules. I visited their website to read their FAQs. It's clear - by the content and colloquial lexicon - whoever wrote it has little legal knowledge. They really should get a professional to review their rules. It would open a can of worms should they get sued.
I'm glad I followed this thread down the lane..
Cheers, John
This site's rules license other inmates to use a post, but only on this site. In other words, if you post a review of the "Supersonic" amplifier here, as a condition for posting, you license other inmates to use any or all of that review, but only in their posts here. So, if the manufacturer of the Supersonic amplifier wants to quote your review here in its promotional materials, it has to get permission.
"... if the manufacturer of the Supersonic amplifier wants to quote your review here in its promotional materials, it has to get permission."
From whom? ... permission from the AA, or permssion from the member, or both?
(I realize not directly related to the issue at hand, just curious.)
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