[LittleEarthquakes]

(2) Waiver of Moral Rights. To the extent that I have any moral rights or similar rights in the material that I post to the Web Site, under the law of any jurisdiction, I waive those rights. I waive any right to have the material attributed to me or to prevent the material from being modified, edited, transformed, or otherwise adapted as Pandora's Aquarium, Inc., and its Agents may deem necessary.

Can some explain to me what this means? Like any posts can be taken and used at random for pandys? It sounds pretty creepy to me, but i don't speak legal talk.

[Hales]

Hi,


Hmmmmm I remember when I read that I wasn't fully aware of what it meant.

I *think* (and of course someone please correct me/confirm this) it is to do with Pandy's staff/mods having the right to edit any posts made by members.

Of course I could be completly wrong, just sounds like it could mean that - I also have no idea what any legal speak means! :)/> I don't think it would be anything creepy tho.

Take care,

Hayley
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[LittleEarthquakes]

I could see that Hayley. Thanks for that.

I guess i just want to make sure it doesn't mean that once you post it here, you no longer can claim it as your own words etc.

[Hales]

Hey,

No I don't think it would mean anything like that, your words are your own and always will be.
One of the lovely mods here should be able to give a better and more offical answer tho just incase I'm wrong :)/>

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[Shannon]

When it comes to copyright, moral rights are the rights of an author to keep his or her work from being modified or altered in any way. Maintenance of those rights wouldn't work here - because we may need to edit it, delete it, and cannot guarantee that 50 years from now this message board will even still exist; if it's deleted, so is your post, which would violate your moral rights.

When writers submit their work for publication, they usually waive moral rights - because odds are, the work will need to be changed in some way during the publishing process. The same principle is applied here.

The reason for the "attribution" language is because we do not permit identifying materials to be posted on the board - so, if you wanted your full name and address attached to your post, we'd have to say no.

So Hayley is pretty much exactly right - what you post here is still your own. It may be edited or deleted by staff per your agreement with us to follow guidelines, but we won't use it in any other manner without your express permission.

I understand your concern, though. Our TOS in general was drafted by lawyers with the purpose of protection: of you, and of the organization. We will not republish what you write unless you tell us we can.

Shannon

[Hales]

Thanks for confirming that Shannon! :)/>

[LittleEarthquakes]

thanks for the explanation

[Shannon]

You're welcome!

[sisterinsurvival]

Hi Shannon,

I am glad that you clarified this. I had wondered about it too, but I wasn't so much worried about what the site would do with it as I am about what others who might plagiarize from here might do. I had someone doing a dissertation once ask about using something I had written and it bothered me...I guess there is really no way to control this though.

Take care,
Lynn

This post has been edited by sisterinsurvival: 31 December 2008 - 09:49 AM

[Shannon]

Yup, we just sort of do the best we can, you know? And what's really remarkable is that in all the years Pandy's has been online we haven't had many major problems!

[Hales]

Shannon, on Dec 31 2008, 04:23 PM, said:

Yup, we just sort of do the best we can, you know? And what's really remarkable is that in all the years Pandy's has been online we haven't had many major problems!

Don't jinx it Shannon! :D/>

[sisterinsurvival]

:goodjob:/> I am glad to hear that you haven't had problems with this. Thanks for letting me know.