Some site is ripping products off from here

[KURTZ]

check post #3, i hope that my point is clear

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I still fail to see the question in that post.

[KURTZ]

OK let me explain better (i try cause i don't speak english correctly):

we all know that if we wanna download/use some hacks from this site we must have a current and valid vB license from Jelsoft otherwise we can't view anything ... so if we own this (i mean the license) we can register here and use this forum ... obviously we can download all the things that are posted here, but after that we can upload the hacks that we have downloaded from here in other sites ... now it's the point that i wanna ask to you Marco , we can upload the 'vB.org's hacks' onto other sites, but these site that i mean don't request us any valid and current license by Jelsoft so we can bypass the license and use all the hacks that are posted here without any license ...

so the question is: is legally correct (i mean without legal troubles) reproduce the hacks from vB.org to another site? the copyrights are owned by the authors or also by the web site that host these files?

hope you can understand what i mean and what i ask to you

A modification author can post his modification wherever he pleases, he owns the copyright. A user can not download a modification here and then redistribute it elsewhere on the internet without the Author's direct permission - that is illegal.

[KURTZ]

thx Danny that's what i wanna know, but what i previously know is this: 'if we haven't any specific or direct deny' to redistribute we can use anything the only thing that's required is 'specify' the name of the author ...

anyway thx

[Marco van Herwaarden]

'if we haven't any specific or direct deny' to redistribute we can use anything the only thing that's required is 'specify' the name of the author ...

This would be wrong.

You can not redistribute any modification unless you have permission from the author.

[Boofo]

But isn't it left up to the author to go after the sites that have their files illegally?

[KURTZ]

unfortunately i'm not a lawyer and also i can't explain better my thoughts about this ... however i tried to read the creative commons license, and it says that if an author don't tell what are the restrictions there aren't restrictions ... also i think that if there are some limitations the authors can be legally responsible if something goes wrong (if we use something from them) ...

i know it's a complex issue

the problem Kurtz is that vb.org is not ruled under the Creative Commons... there is a copyright in the footer of this site....

[KURTZ]

yes Nexia, but the rights about the hacks that are posted here are owned by the authors ... not by vB.org ... that's what Danny told us ...

edit: so if i post here something without the clear permission by the original author, Marco (or someone) deletes my post/files, but the question is the opposite ...