Copyright Ownership of Posts

[Freesteyelz]

Originally Posted by Erwin

The current law in most Western countries seem to be that the more control you have over the posts (i.e. moderation) the higher your responsibility for the content of the posts. However, this is obviously a separate issue to ownership of copyright.

I think the conversation had changed course unless I had misinterpreted what you replied to Paul M. It still applied, nevertheless.

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Erwin

That's not entirely accurate. Disclaimers can never absolve completely the duties and responsibilities under common law.

By that, I meant you cannot be held totally responsible, only partially at worst

Chris

[Tony G]

If they were to list everything they could be exempt from it would take pages and pages. But with most contracts of this form, they would definitely exempt themselves from things like negligence and basically anythig that would see them paying damages or specific performance if breach occurs. Some things wont have relevance to a certain contract so they wont be listed and so on. There are some dirty clauses people use, you can exempt yourself from basically anything thats listed if the other party agrees/signs it, regardless if it is unfair.

It's actually worth working on your terms and conditions if you're a big board then, so people dont call their lawyers on you.