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January 22, 2008
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Policy Changes and Clarifications
Recent events have shown us here at the Dan Wesson Forum that we need to clarify the understandings we have with our users. Some of this is a change from past policy, while other portions are simply a statement of what has been implicit for these last few years.
Regardless, these are the rules that you are accepting when you participate here on DWF. If you have questions, please feel free to contact anyone on Staff.
Copyright
1) As a general rule, users are only allowed to post text and/or images that they own. If you wrote it or you snapped the photo, then you are within the rules. Reposting a cool image from another site that's relevant here is not allowed.
2) Fair use allows limited reposting of others' content, but this is an increasingly grey area in the online world. The US Copyright Office has guidelines, but they are imperfect at best. While many of us were taught that "a paragraph or two" was a reasonable use, there are instances where even this may qualify as copyright infringement depending on the length of the original publication.
3) Because fair use is such a grey area, we would strongly encourage users who wish to refer to material owned by others to post the links to other sites along with their own brief summary of the content they are linking to. If appropriate, you may, as an alternative or addition, quote a sentence or two from the site you are linking to, but this should not exceed one paragraph of copied text.
4) By posting here you are granting us a perpetual, irrevocable license to post your comments on danwessonforum.com. You are agreeing that we may edit your posts, allow others to quote them in their own posts, and modify the format as necessary as this site and technology mature. Once your posts are a part of the site they can be very difficult to remove without destroying the value of the threads you participated in, so you are acknowledging up front that we may refuse to remove your posts should you ask us to do so.
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