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Zearen Wover · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 42

I was curious how copyright worked on this site. I've heard that things posted on forums become the intellectual property of the site owner. For obvious reasons, I find this extremely undesirable. Is this just rumor? Can I post things here while retaining my rights?
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:00 am Post subject:

I have a strong suspicion that it won't ever come into question.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: Copyright

Zearen Wover · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 42

Phew, that makes me feel a lot better. I'm not worried as much about someone stealing my ideas, and I'm fine with them being published. What I was worried about was somehow my ideas becoming commercially viable (AKA me actually launching a game) then getting slapped with an IP lawsuit because I published them here first. I, of course, did not worry about the admins doing this, but rather bizhat. Thanks.
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Serali · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject:

I've never heard of such a thing happening on any forum that I've been on.

I have no legal knowledge whatsoever but according to everyone else you have nothing to worry about.

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StrangeMagic · Admin Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640

Well, from what I have read under UK law, whatever you write down becomes your own property. Therefore I do not believe that me or Serali would take /your/ copyright.

I am sure that we would not do that either, even if that was the case. =)

Serali · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject:

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Serali · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:18 am Post subject:

kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

The real answer would be that it might be impossible to think no one could ever copy at least part of your texts or ideas and use them in other people's projects, books, games, etc. Since anyone can copy a whole news article and paste it on a forum, just about anyone could be a potential criminal. That doesn't mean that at least some forumers would actually commit such a crime. I think they're smart enough to avoid that. BTW I've seen one or two examples where people preferred to ask the original poster if they'd allow them to take something from his / her ideas or concepts or rules, etc. and use them somewhere else and develop their own story, game, etc. Of course they didn't ask him / her to allow them to reproduce his / her work as a whole, it'd be just a (very) small portion of it.

There's also the possibility that you could write something about death as a legal punishment and someone else likes this idea and also writes an article or a book about it but doesn't treat the topic the same way you did because he or she had a completely different point of view.
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