Some site is ripping products off from here

actually, having your stuff here is a privilege, not a right, so the owners of THIS site can trash your work if they consider it is not following rules...

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by nexialys

actually, having your stuff here is a privilege, not a right, so the owners of THIS site can trash your work if they consider it is not following rules...

yes i definitely agreed with this, any home's owner can rule like he wants in his home ... but the point is another, if we can redistribute anything from this site (i mean the hacks from third part - the users - NOT directly from the owners of the staff of vB.org) and, if yes, what are the legal restrictions ...

[Paul M]

You cannot redistribute anything from this site without the authors permission - thats already been stated once.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Seems you still don't get the point: Any original work is automatically copyrighted, unless stated different by the author. You can (are not allowed to) not redistribute the work without permission from the original author. It makes no difference if the author is a staff member on vB.org.

Work released on vB.org is always copyrighted to the author, never to "vBulletin.org".

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 ...

If we become aware that someone is posting the work of others without prior permission from the original author then he will most likely get an infraction and the release is removed.

Just to clarify - even if you do mention the author's name, that's not enough to warrant permission to redistribute. You need specific permission from the author to redistribute...(and that is with any copyrighted work.)

Edit: Didn't see the all of these replies basically saying what I did.

[Boofo]

What remedy do we, as authors, have when someone takes our hacks from here and posts them on another site?

actually, a good technique is to go to that site and ask POLITELY to remove the release... i've done it at some occasions on pirate websites and they gladly answer to our requests... when you go directly to threaten them, they laugh at you, because you act the opposite way of a politically correct guy... but being polite, human and professional makes you having a good positive answer from them in most of the situations...

[Boofo]

I've tried the polite route and gotten laughed at and ignored all the same. The point I was trying to make is no matter what the rules are here concerning the copyright issue, it doesn't carry on outside the org, that I know of, anyway. If they get it from here and post it, will the org go after them?

they can't sue the borrower, if it's your question... we do not pay any protection police here... they are not hired by us to protect our stuff... (that's manly why i do not release here anyway.)

[Boofo]

Then there is no real protection or copyright in the long run.