Originally Posted By leemac I'd calm down mouseserf - there is nothing that could be construed as copyrighted material in your post. Not a single word.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 mousemerf, calm down. I'm sure the mods will take of this as soon as possible. They volunteer their time and can't be here every minute of the day. Chill out.
Originally Posted By mousermerf The presentation as a whole can hold a copyright leemac. The way it's worded is exactly how i presented. It's like saying ABC News can show Fox News's report by just video taping it and playing it back. They can't. It's illegal.
Originally Posted By leemac ^^ Absolute nonsense - take it from a lawyer. That type of written word is not copyrighted. Plus you just linked to a third party website.
Originally Posted By mousermerf LP has apparently had the same problems before and done nothing about it. Figures.
Originally Posted By leobloom people, people. you don't understand. this is morf's style. he overreacts--that's just him. and morf, how is this like abc news showing a fox news report? since when did you begin profitting off your public domain posts?
Originally Posted By mousermerf One more thing.. leemac: are you saying I can cut and paste your posts here word for word on other sites and present them as my own?
Originally Posted By leemac Yes. Feel free to do so. There is no copyrighted material in that type of post. I suggest you stick to WDWMagic in future.
Originally Posted By MPierce I have to say that Mousermerf does have a point. That is his post word for word from WDWmagic posted on October 25th. While there is certainly no copyright infringement on a post in a open discussion forum, there is a question of ehtical posting when a person does not give credit when it is due. I don't make the rules over here, so that is just my opinion. However I hope this entire thread does not disappear until I get a couple of more cracks at Spirit to get him to spill his guts about what's going on at Epcot. That is unless leemac wants to jump right in, and end my suffering sooner.
Originally Posted By leemac <<That is unless leemac wants to jump right in, and end my suffering sooner.>> Sorry - my lips are sealed.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<After that heart wrenching plea to Spirit I forget to put his quote in. So my post didn't make much since. Come to think of it most of my post don't make much since.>> That's perfectly OK ... I understood. As for anymore info, it's a combo of me not knowing more and not being able to divulge more. But I am not thrilled by the Canada plans right now.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp "Absolute nonsense - take it from a lawyer. That type of written word is not copyrighted." Leemac, your statement is incorrect. From the US Copyright Office, "Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,†including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright." The post is a work of authorship, and belongs to mousemerf. The type of material that it is is irrelevant to whether or not copyright attached. To partially quote you, "I suggest you stick to ----- in future.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey OMG, it's a freaking post on a message board!!!!! Do you all really have nothing better to do than quibble over the copyright of a POST? Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Let me just quote Walt Disney for a moment. No wait, I can't, his comments are copyrighted. Dang...
Originally Posted By magnet As is so often the case in this particular section of the messageboard, the threads at some point invariably turn into a discussion of the poster or the act of posting rather than the content of the post itself. What was the poster's motive? What agenda is he advancing? Who is he, anyway? Geesh, enough already! A copyright will protect your ability to profit from your intellectual property. If you're so stupid that you run out and post that property on a messageboard then you deserve whatever you get. Just you try to get a lawyer to do something about it too....
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Funny you'd mention that... <a href="http://www.Message_Board_Plagiarism_Lawyer.com" target="_blank">http://www.Message_Board_Plagi arism_Lawyer.com</a>
