soundoff wrote:Copyright Notice
All content posted on the message boards of AGEOD is the exclusive intellectual property of AGEOD. Copyright ownership resides in that content by AGEOD and the Company is free to use any of the content as they wish. Anyone other than AGEOD seeking to reprint, republish, or reproduce content posted on the AGEOD message boards must receive the express written permission from the Webmaster of the AGEOD forum in which the content was posted. By posting on the AGEOD message boards you are agreeing to the above and relinquishing all copyright to the contents of the post(s) to AGEOD.To tell the truth this section disturbed me more than a little when it appeared. If I'm totally honest its the reason why I made sure that my image hosting service deleted any links to this forum. It is very very draconian to think that anything that is posted on these boards 'automatically' become the 'exclusive intellectual property of AGEOD' and cannot be reprinted, published or reproduced anywhere else by the author without the expressed permission of the Webmaster or AGEOD
Just my take and if its usual policy for other websites then my......sincerest apologies to one and all but it will make me wary of posting on AGEOD forums......perhaps I should be as wary on others?
It is like that in every OFFICIAL forum... if you haven't noticed it before, it is because you haven't read the rules.
Just visit the LucasArts forum, or the Paradox forum or any other games official forum... I am NOT talking about "community forums" managed by community members, I am talking about OFFICIAL forums.
This is to PROTECT AGEOD from the usual banned member that ask for all his content to be removed ... or similar cases like that.
Also, imagine this situation.... if you post in here something, and then a moderator edits your post (because of breaking x rule) someone crazy enough may try to sue AGEOD becuase they are editing "MY" post.
You may think that is just a stupid example... but beleive me, in big communities that happens more than you can think of
... and this rule, clearly protects AGEOD in that case. The moderator has the power to edit your post because its content its property of AGEOD.
Really, people tend to not see the problem of Copyright... but it is a HUGE problem of its own.
I will give you another simple example (I love examples!! because I think are much better to understand
)... recently I have been contacted by the Premier League Board to see if I was the owner of some logos of some Premiership teams that I had in my photobucket account. They politely told me that if I didn't answered in less than a week with a positive answer, they will remove my images from the server.
Obviously, I didn't bought the logo of Manchester United or Chelsea.... neither I had the rights granted by the Premiership to show them in my AAR of Football Manager...
So, they quickly erased all the images of logos from my account.
Another example, try to upload a goal in the Premiership to youtube... or the last F1 Grand Prix race... you will not be able to do so. It will be removed in minutes.
Everything that you post , must be public or you must be the owner of the rights... if not, you are getting yourself (and the forum owner) in troubles.
That's why, Copyrights is VERY important in an official company forum.
So, that's why AGEOD NEEDS to "own" what you post... so, in case you don't comply with the rules, it can be quickly erased without any legal problem.
Anyway, the general forum is not the place to discuss the forum rules... if you have any question about them, I think you better contact the administrators in private, not in public.
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