Posting Guidlines.

[Madtown HD Junkie]

Please do not post whole articles. Please limit any quotes to roughly 3 sentences. Please post a link to the source you are referencing. Site staff will edit articles should it be necessary to meet these guidelines.

As referenced here.....
AP to sue websites that use its members' articles without permission (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090406/media_nm/us_ap)

AP and other News outlets are cracking down on this.
All content we use is fully licensed and we want to make sure all posting are also fully compliant with all laws.

Thank you for your help.

[vurbano]

What about the cartoons you are posting? those are copyrighted too.

[cybok0]

What about the cartoons you are posting? those are copyrighted too.

They are RSS Feeds.

[Madtown HD Junkie]

I pay for them and the columns. I have a license to use them.

[vurbano]

cool

[msmith198025]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/#ixzz0utHtUepD


Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad.

Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money.

“We believe it’s the best solution out there,” Gibson says. “Media companies’ assets are very much their copyrights. These companies need to understand and appreciate that those assets have value more than merely the present advertising revenues.”

[Derwin0]

Yeah, that's why I only post the link along with a small except as that is allowed under fair use. Never post the entire article, as that is a copywrite violation.

btw, you should probably sticky this, along with guidelines to use. Having it stickied provides CYA coverage for those who own/run the site. It's usually the difference between a take down notice and a lawsuit.

[vurbano]

its pretty old topic. I thought we have been over this before.

[Derwin0]

its pretty old topic. I thought we have been over this before.

We hashed it out over at Sat Guys, not sure if it's come up here or not.

[msmith198025]

Done and merged with older thread covering the topic. The reason for the new topic was basically the story, but does not hurt to have this added to the previous sticky.

[Derwin0]

Done and merged with older thread covering the topic. The reason for the new topic was basically the story, but does not hurt to have this added to the previous sticky.

Since the US politics forum is the most used, would it make sense to have this there? I know I seldom come into here.

[msmith198025]

Still valid people, use this as a guide as it will be enforced.