Content theft - need some advice

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by ProSportsForums

Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/fa...al.html#mywork

Let's stop with the "forum property law." It isn't helping the customer.

It is simply a fact, possession being 9/10s of the law in any circumstance.

When you submit data to a site you have no control over it, they do. They physically own it, you do not. They can edit it, delete it, whatever they want to do and you have NO say.

Copying it however, content scraping for example - is where the copyright stuff comes in. It's a nebulous area where protecting content is concerned and it's a case by case basis. But there is NO question, the site owner owns all accounts, all posts, and all content in the database. It's just a fact of online life.

If for example, you decided to sue vB dot org for the rights to your posts, your username, etc how far do you think you would get?