LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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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.
Velocio-
Well no you can have a disclaimer that works both ways that gives you (the owner) the right to show the content and the image owner to assign that right by hitting the post button but not grab all rights to it.
They (the poster) also agree to be responsible for any subsequent copyright infringement due to their posting.But seeing as the bean counters and legal people of the corporate world would like to grab whatever they can it became the default position and can be cut and paste without worry.
Anyway those are the terms, people can not post their content if they don’t agree to them.
Mr_Smyth
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.