LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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It’s a rights grab so any content you post can be re-sold, licensed or modified without your permission or recompense.
So a huge image archive that is now owned by whoever owns the forum.
Mr_Smyth-
I don't disagree.
That's how it works if you want to run a service and not have people flounce and say "I withdraw my copyright", which would then need that tracking at every level to enable compliance, which is frankly impossible as the vast majority of images are reposts from elsewhere and you didn't have the rights either 🤷
The best the internet has is creative commons, and maybe I should've gone with that, but I carried forward a rights grab from the mid 1990s instead as I was lazy in building the system.
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It’s a rights grab so any content you post can be re-sold, licensed or modified without your permission or recompense.
So a huge image archive that is now owned by whoever owns the forum.
The wording of the T&Cs seems to allow at least the possibility that anyone can re-use the content, not just the owner of the forum.
Velocio
rw101
As I read it that means you own the copyright to your own posts but in effect have simultaneously given it away.
Then, who have you ceded the copyright to? I suppose in the first instance to the Forum, however legally constituted, but the text also includes:
Does this mean that anyone could take this intellectual property and repurpose it for private or commercial use? So that for all practical purposes there is no copyright? Or are the 'others' to be determined by whoever represents the Forum?