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Originally Posted by ProSportsForums
That does not give the site owner legal right to post the material elsewhere nor to sell the material. That is where the ownership issue falls short for the site owner. The member who posted the material is, of course, free to post it anywhere he or she chooses. In the unlikely event a site owner did attempt to sell posted material or to reproduce it on another site the member who originally posted it would still have to prove damages.
Your TOS sets you apart from most forums in that you are specific as to the rights you are requesting in the TOS. I can tell you that I would never agree to your terms.
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I am glad you now agree that the site owner owns the bits and bytes of information in his database.
However you have erected a strawman, since the owner selling or posting the material elsewhere was NOT part of the original argument. You have attempted to move the goalposts away from your original statement which was:
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Originally Posted by ProSportsForums
Forum content is the property of the individual who posted the content.
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No, it is not.