Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:43 AM 06/01/00 -0900, you wrote: >Philip Greenspun, the writer of the forum software, Isn't Philip the person who runs PhotoNet? What I don't get about sites like this is when I read the public discussion areas, they often say that everything posted there is under his copyright, as web owner/developer. This does not make sense to me. If I post something on that site, as the author, do I not still retain copyright? How does he get to "own" what others have posted? What is the accepted copyright standards when something is posted in a public discussion area? And why should experts on the LUG post on a site like this and then find that someone else retains rights to the material, and could one day sell the website for a sizable sum of money.