What’s the copyright situation here? If a crosspost is just a link to a post outside the EA forum, that’s one thing; but if it involves copying the entire text to the forum, crossposting presumably requires the permission of the author.
Yes, you shouldn’t crosspost the entire text of something without an author’s permission.
But I think you can go beyond a link and share a brief excerpt of basically anything — paper abstracts are public, book reviews often quote extended sections of a book, etc.
In cases where the Forum’s team has crossposted full articles, we check in with the author before doing so (e.g. for the Replacing Guilt sequence).
Realistically, though, we’ve had hundreds of things crossposted here by other users and have only had complaints in two cases I can remember — in both cases, when a private Google Doc was shared without the consent of all the people who’d been working on it. So we don’t proactively remove types of content that seem very safe (e.g. posts from bloggers in the EA community who share all their content for free on their blogs), though we would remove something like a link to a pirated book if we became aware of it.
What’s the copyright situation here? If a crosspost is just a link to a post outside the EA forum, that’s one thing; but if it involves copying the entire text to the forum, crossposting presumably requires the permission of the author.
Yes, you shouldn’t crosspost the entire text of something without an author’s permission.
But I think you can go beyond a link and share a brief excerpt of basically anything — paper abstracts are public, book reviews often quote extended sections of a book, etc.
In cases where the Forum’s team has crossposted full articles, we check in with the author before doing so (e.g. for the Replacing Guilt sequence).
Realistically, though, we’ve had hundreds of things crossposted here by other users and have only had complaints in two cases I can remember — in both cases, when a private Google Doc was shared without the consent of all the people who’d been working on it. So we don’t proactively remove types of content that seem very safe (e.g. posts from bloggers in the EA community who share all their content for free on their blogs), though we would remove something like a link to a pirated book if we became aware of it.