Awww... I'll do my best. If I import this, I would merge it into our current off-topic forum as there's little sense having too.
I could give you details over here or via PM, I just don't know how I'd maintain so many threads updated
You haven't activated your account, did you receive the email?
If you tweet something, even if you delete it, it is still entirely legal for anyone to publicly attribute the tweet to you, in a publicly recorded form. You can't sue a journalist for talking about something you tweeted on TV any more than you can say someone doesn't have permission to copy your tweet into a forum post.
Similarly, publicly posted material (including forum posts) can be recopied and redistributed in any form.
No, they aren't.
No, you didn't. Once you posted your words directly into the public domain, you sacrificed any chance of your "permission" being a factor in their distribution at all.
My materials (including my posts) are all copyrighted by me.
By choosing to post them here, I gave EA/BioWare permission to distribute them via this site.
I did NOT give this "fextralife" (whatever it is) permission to do squat with my materials.
Please forgive me for picking on these posts specifically, but the notion that written works published on the internet aren't subject to the same copyright laws as material published in any other fashion is a myth. Otherwise, web content creators / publishers could be robbed blind.
I'd also like to note that copying an entire article from elsewhere and posting it here is a copyright infringement. It's something I see people do frequently - apparently, they believe that it's permissible so long as they give proper attribution and provide a link to the original source - but that is another widely held myth. Web traffic is a valuable commodity, and posting content anywhere other than its place of origin may deprive the owner of that traffic. (Providing the link can also generate traffic, however, which is the reason why such authors rarely pursue such infringement.)
Well, except this isn't a case of a published article, This is a case of signing onto a business site after accepting their terms of service that our words are at their disposal.
When you signed up for this forum, you agreed to EA's Terms of Service, which state in part:
7. UGC License Grant to EA and Others
When you contribute UGC to an EA Service, you expressly grant to EA and its licensors a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, complete, sub-licensable and irrevocable right to quote, re-post, publish, use, adapt, translate, archive, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, syndicate, license, print, sublicense, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and perform the UGC, or any portion thereof, in any manner or form and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without notice, payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party. You grant EA and its licensors all licenses, consents and clearances to enable EA and its licensors to use such UGC for such purposes. You waive and agree not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in such UGC.
If the EA Service on which you contribute UGC permits other users to access and use that UGC as part of the EA Service, then you also grant all other users of the relevant EA Service the right to use, copy, modify, display, perform, create derivative works from, and otherwise communicate and distribute your UGCon or through the relevant EA Servicewithout further notice, attribution or compensation to you.
UGC = User Generated Content.
Depending on interpretation, the statement I underlined could support publishing UGC anywhere. Were it not for the presence of the phrase I formatted as strikethrough, fextralife would be home free.
Of course, for any work to qualify for copyright protection, it must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression (a forum post would qualify), original, and the result of at least some creative effort on the part of its author. How much creative effort is required is subject to interpretation, but I would posit that a lot of forum posts would not qualify.
Then there is the fair use doctrine, which consider these 4 factors in a determination of fair use:
-- Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
-- Nature of the copyrighted work
-- Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
-- Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work
Although I've certainly enjoyed reading a lot of the posts here, and feel that some of them are genuinely creative, inspired, and perhaps even brilliant, I'd be hard pressed to believe any of them have a market value greater than zero minus the hosting cost. Even if some of them do, in fact, have a market value, the authors chose to post them here with no compensation, thus doing serious damage to any claim they might make after the fact.
TL;DR: Any individual claims of copyright infringement due to Fexelea's archiving appear to be without legal merit.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have, however, worked with multiple legal firms specializing in Intellectual Property Law in filing patents, service marks, and copyrights and have thus likely had more exposure to it than your average forum denizen.)
...Which you go on to demonstrate by quoting the terms of service.
Well, except this isn't a case of a published article, This is a case of signing onto a business site after accepting their terms of service that our words are at their disposal.
No, you didn't. Once you posted your words directly into the public domain, you sacrificed any chance of your "permission" being a factor in their distribution at all.
If it's not too late, I've just created a Fextralife account if my assorted reams of crap might be allowed to follow me over there. Perhaps predictably, my account name there is also vometia.
If it's not too late, I've just created a Fextralife account if my assorted reams of crap might be allowed to follow me over there. Perhaps predictably, my account name there is also vometia.
You've made my day. 
I hope you write some more "crap", because I used to like it.
Same as here:
AnhedonicDonkey
Hi - thanks for this. My Fex username is MikeC99 Is that all you need?
cheers
MikeC
In that sense, it has already been cached many times, by many different entities, by a process that, as I understand it, is legal virtually everywhere.
In the same way that someone can copy your tweet and distribute it another way, someone can cache your post and distribute it another way.
The only way to prevent that is... not to post.
But that's nonsense copy a content or a part of a content can be done legally under the policy of the fair use,copying an entire forum and millions of posts isn't the same thing.
People who think their precious snowflake forum posts are copyrighted are goofballs. Jesus Christ, the end of this place can't come soon enough.
People who think their precious snowflake forum posts are copyrighted are goofballs. Jesus Christ, the end of this place can't come soon enough.
Jesus Christ it can't come late enough.
Google, for example, has many caches of this site, and they don't have any legal obligation to delete them unless something very significant changes internationally with regards to the related law.
No, they aren't.
No, you didn't. Once you posted your words directly into the public domain, you sacrificed any chance of your "permission" being a factor in their distribution at all.
Yes, it does. Public domain is the key here. If you had any legal claim on the words you post to this site, the mods wouldn't be able to edit or delete them, and people like this youtuber:
...wouldn't be able to post videos of it.
This video on you tube is a form of fair use and not the whole copy of the forum this person is copying all the pages and archives with no rights to do so.Wrong once you subscribe to the forum you give permisson to EA/Bioware to delete or altering your posts.
Jesus Christ it can't come late enough.
2) Determine whether the importation of a forum post to another depository infringes upon such copyright. My view is that a good case for fair use can be made, thus infringement would probably not be found.
Any individual claims of copyright infringement due to Fexelea's archiving appear to be without legal merit.
...Which you go on to demonstrate by quoting the terms of service.
Demonstrating by formatting that very important bit that basically confirm nothing.
People who think their precious snowflake forum posts are copyrighted are goofballs. Jesus Christ, the end of this place can't come soon enough.
Shall we make a snowman, Ser Spud? I have some fresh carrots 
Then there is the fair use doctrine, which consider these 4 factors in a determination of fair use:
-- Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
This doesn't qualify as fair use,the pages of the forum are not being simply archived and saved for a personal use but to recruit more users onto another forum.
Please stop derailing this thread. If anyone has copyright concerns you can send me a PM. If anyone has specific points to counter on things said please PM the specific person.
This back-and-forth is only making it difficult for me to fulfill the purpose of this thread and update the OP.
Thank you.
Update:
Everyone up to this post should be listed on the First Post. If you don't see your username there, or it's typed wrong, please let me know ASAP.
>> An easy way to check is to ctrl+f and type your name and see if it comes up.
If you have not received your imported posts, please let me know too!.
Finally I managed to create an account over there
Same ID as here:
Dekibra
Same here and there: Morlanwen
SogaBan (fextralife account name). Please count me in.
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