Who owns forum / post content?

[evoesque]

I had an idea (which I won't be attempting as it may be a mine field and I have neither the time nor inclination to have a go) but it raised an interesting question.

Who owns the content of a thread? Is it the individual poster, the site owner?

The idea was to produce a book of interesting posts from the interweb (the Nazi bunker would make an interesting read whilst having some alone time)...I'm guessing the book would live in the smallest room in the house!

It would be straight forward to do (with the book having been written already) but the legalities I'm guesssing would be a fairly major stumbling block.

[Plotloss]

The publisher essentially, I believe.

In this case PH.

[Arese]

I think it depends on the forum. When you join most of them, I think you give any rights to the information you post, to them.

[Melman Giraffe]

Arese said:

I think it depends on the forum. When you join most of them, I think you give any rights to the information you post, to them.

[evoesque]

Plotloss said:

The publisher essentially, I believe.

In this case PH.

There you go then PH. Compile all the greatest threads to have graced these hallowed pages, bundle them onto some paper, give it a snazzy title and flog it.

Like I said, the bunker thread would be a good place to start.
Peeing in the kettle
Getting fleeced by strippers
...

[andy-xr]

I'm still unclear on images, as they're called from another site and displayed on PH arent they?

[Plotloss]

andy-xr said:

I'm still unclear on images, as they're called from another site and displayed on PH arent they?

Depends if you use the new PH image uploader (beta)

[andy-xr]

And thats kind of why I asked... Are you, or rather is PH looking for content?

Shall I start a new one in Website Feedback?

[Famous Graham]

Plotloss said:

andy-xr said:

I'm still unclear on images, as they're called from another site and displayed on PH arent they?

Depends if you use the new PH image uploader (beta)

That's not PH either, it's hosted on ThumbSnap (unless that's some Haymarket site).

Aside from which, copyright ALWAYS remains with the photographer unless explicitly stated otherwise (T&Cs of site usage etc). Hence the key phrase :

PH Ts and Cs said:

Copyright in PistonHeads (including but not limited to text, photographs, graphics and software) is owned by or licensed to the publishers, Haymarket Consumer Media.

[Mexico.]

evoesque said:

Plotloss said:

The publisher essentially, I believe.

In this case PH.

There you go then PH. Compile all the greatest threads to have graced these hallowed pages, bundle them onto some paper, give it a snazzy title and flog it.

Like I said, the bunker thread would be a good place to start.
Peeing in the kettle
Getting fleeced by strippers
...

Who got> Getting fleeced by strippers Link please

[evoesque]

Mexico. said:

evoesque said:

Plotloss said:

The publisher essentially, I believe.

In this case PH.

There you go then PH. Compile all the greatest threads to have graced these hallowed pages, bundle them onto some paper, give it a snazzy title and flog it.

Like I said, the bunker thread would be a good place to start.
Peeing in the kettle
Getting fleeced by strippers
...

Who got> Getting fleeced by strippers Link please

Part 1 - http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

Part 2 - http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

Edited by evoesque on Wednesday 10th June 12:33

Edited by evoesque on Wednesday 10th June 12:39

[LukeBird]

evoesque said:

Plotloss said:

The publisher essentially, I believe.

In this case PH.

There you go then PH. Compile all the greatest threads to have graced these hallowed pages, bundle them onto some paper, give it a snazzy title and flog it.

Like I said, the bunker thread would be a good place to start.
Peeing in the kettle
Getting fleeced by strippers
...

How many mongs would he have who'd sign up afterwards though?