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I'm putting together a reference section on my own web site to help me organize all of the stuff I'm learning from WebmasterWorld and other sources. I'd like to make it avaiable to anyone else who may stumble upon it (note: this is not a money-making venture). That way not only will I have code snippets in one place, but I can also see them in action.
I realize that I need to get the permission of the author of the post, and I plan to do that before posting anything to a publicly accesible site.
My question is do I need to get the permission of "a WebmasterWorld.com administrator" for each individual post, or is there a type of "blanket" permission that could be granted? Also, who qualifies as "a WebmasterWorld.com administrator" who could give me permission to do this?
I've learned a lot from this community (and others), and would like to be able to share that with others--all with proper attribution of course.
<edit>Moved one sentence for context</edit>
[edited by: photon at 6:37 pm (utc) on June 25, 2003]
Brett_Tabke
If you really want to put all the information you have learnt from here, keep it non commercial is on word or some other offline documents.
As it says at the bottom of every WW page:
Member comments are owned by the poster.With few exceptions, I would never authorize anyone to re-post my information.
I would be very upset to see any of my comments on someone elses web site, apart from WebmasterWorld.
I think this plan is misguided, redundant, intrusive, and wholly unneccessary.
A japanese co. who translates my website into japanese uses a paragraph from my document on their site to get people into it then links to my source url and their translation of it. I have no issues with that, but this place is differnt and theres differnt circumstances. :)
Store on your own machine for your own use, or refer people straight here for education of the masses.
IMHO and from backlink checks on my personal posts this happens quite a bit (noting my discussion with Brett) and without anyone permission what-so-ever.
A link is a link > if snippets of my comments and linked to the full "deeplinked" discussion (that few would quickly find on their own -- I certainly don't have a problem, as long as WebmasterWorld doesn't.
If however the original reference isn't quoted and linked... then agree, the comments are not yours to post.
[edited by: fathom at 3:45 am (utc) on June 26, 2003]
With few exceptions, I would never authorize anyone to re-post my information.I would be very upset to see any of my comments on someone elses web site, apart from WebmasterWorld.
Ditto.
Yes, you need to get permission from each poster and WebmasterWorld. I almost agree all the time as it is up to the poster. Occasionally, such-as-compilation blogs, I have said no.
I would use code snippets, not general comments, that were posted on the forums (I'm thinking primarily from the CSS forum, which could be used to demonstrate the effects of various layouts, etc.). Any explanations of those snippets, if used, would be attibuted to the the person who originally posted it as well as to WebmasterWorld, with a link to the original post. I'd want to give credit where credit is due.
To put everyone's mind at ease, and as I stated originally, nothing will be used unless permission is received both from the individual poster and WebmasterWorld. If you've expressed that you don't want your comments to be used, I will respect that.
Thanks for your feedback.
That is likely the route I will take. I just wanted to be able to give credit to the person(s) who helped me reach that understanding.
"i'd like to acknowledge martinibuster's excellent posts at webmasterworld.com which helped me learn about widget coding."
i suspect this would be ok, but i'm certainly not anyone to say if it would be or not.
Fair use is a defence for copyright infingement, not a right. Quoting an excerpt of a work, for news reporting, comment or criticism is a common use of "fair use" and I don't see why it wouldn't apply here. But IANAL :)
Word for the legal deptartment is that fair use of WebmasterWorld would be a few quotes here or there. Doing it repeatidly is a copyright violation and will be met with a c&d. We protect our members contributions such that they will not be misused or misrepresented on some other site.
Do you want me to forward copies of most industry (SEO/site development) emails that come though? Most are a rehash of WW content. Usually, within 24 – 36 hours after info has been posted on the forums.
Rich
Also, summarizing the point of a thread and then linking to a thread shouldn't be a problem as you aren't quoting anything and not claiming any credit.
Just make sure folks won't see your site in google when they're searching for their own posts ;)
SN
