“It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially?”
No, AFAICT there’s not a legal distinction between stuff I post online and stuff I publish on paper, and I feel equally strongly about people republishing either without my consent.
Changing the T&Cs of the Forum (with sufficient notice that people could take down their posts) would be a valid way around this
Ok I might be wrong. Worth digging into the legal details of this. I think the issue might be “what is posting on an online forum equivalent to?”
http://loureads.com/ (very NSFW) reads content from forums onto a podcast … making me think this was similar.
I suggest that applying this T&C for new posts might be the way to go. Regardless of the legal implications it seems fair to give people advance warning that their content may be on a podcast. I’m sorry for failing to always do this in the past.
“It’s on the World Wide Web, I think it’s legally free to use non commercially?”
No, AFAICT there’s not a legal distinction between stuff I post online and stuff I publish on paper, and I feel equally strongly about people republishing either without my consent.
Changing the T&Cs of the Forum (with sufficient notice that people could take down their posts) would be a valid way around this
Ok I might be wrong. Worth digging into the legal details of this. I think the issue might be “what is posting on an online forum equivalent to?”
http://loureads.com/ (very NSFW) reads content from forums onto a podcast … making me think this was similar.
I suggest that applying this T&C for new posts might be the way to go. Regardless of the legal implications it seems fair to give people advance warning that their content may be on a podcast. I’m sorry for failing to always do this in the past.