New Board Usage Policy

[*crikey*mate*]

Discussion boards usage policy

Does anyone know

1) What is a Community Project?

2) What is a Group Project, and

3) "Posting web addresses (URLs), websites, or item numbers in the title of a post or threaded discussion"

"or threaded discussion" => Does this mean no links to things in our posts?

[debra9275]

thanks Am

[cherry*135]

Comunity projects - organisations in the community 

 - small local school needs new cricket bats, a group discuss how they can approach sports retailers etc and try and get some free ones or discounted ones

- small local playgroup needs new equipment - group discuss how they can approach toy retaliers for donation of equipment or discounted play equipment

Charitable projects - regisitered charities

- group discusing how to acquire blankets so they can then be given to a registered charity to assist in that charities work for keeping homeless people warm in winter.

[debra9275]

those are the types of things I perceive community projects to be too

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@am*3 wrote:
Not anything exciting that's for sure.

Another rule
'Posting copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright owner isn't allowed' ebay.com

This could apply to some opinion pieces from blogs that are copied and pasted in full on the discussion boards, if the blog content is copyrighted. Unless the poster has been granted permission.

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I'm also pretty sure that, strictly speaking, copyright of anything posted on CS rests with the poster and should not be reposted by anyone else other than as a quote. Imay be wrong, but I can't recall reading a clause in the board usage policy that requires posters to relinquish copyright. (I'm referring here to material actually written by the poster, not C&Ps which of course must have their origins acknowledged.)

[debra9275]

all I can find on that she-ele is that whats posted by a member is the member's responsibility, not eBays.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@debra9275 wrote:

all I can find on that she-ele is that whats posted by a member is the member's responsibility, not eBays.

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It's implicit, Deb. People think you have to jump through hops to establish copyright, but actually anything you write is automatically copyrighted to you - unless you assign copyright to someone else. For instance, when my father was writing short stories for D.C. Thomson comics in England, he had to assign copyright to them as a condition of accepting payment. It was grossly unfair, as his material was reprinted many times by Thomsons in subsequent issues, annuals and even, once, in a BBC radio programme,  but he had a family to feed and needed the money.. Eventually one of the other writers (I believe it was the guy who wrote the picture scripts for "Desperate Dan") took them to court over it and won, but it was too late for my Dad who had moved over here and retired by then.

[j*oono]

I found the same thing She_el when I was interested in submitting a pattern to a miniatures website.  They were willing to pay a pittance but it meant I would have to sign over copyright of the pattern to them so I didn't do it.

[cherry*135]

Interesting

http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/get-the-right-ip/copyright/

Copyright protection is free and automatic in Australia and protects the original expression of ideas, and not the ideas themselves.

Note: Common works protected by copyright are listed in the link.

How it works

The moment an idea or creative concept is documented, on paper or electronically, it is automatically protected by copyright. Because it is automatic in Australia, there is no official registry or application process for copyright protection.

 So wouldn't really apply to standard chit chat posts on forums etc?

[j*oono]

It is a difficult one isn't it.  I'm not even sure why anyone would want to claim copyright on some chit chat when it is a piece of libel anyway.

Anyway, why do we even have copy/paste on our computers if everything is sacrosanct.

[the_great_she_elephant]

 So wouldn't really apply to standard chit chat posts on forums etc?

I did qualify my comment by saying "strictly speaking", and I agree, you would have a lot of trouble tryng to claim breach of copyright over a bit of general chit chat, but in some threads e.g the mental health support thread,  people do write about their personal experiences. Also, from time to time one or two of us  feel the urge to burst into verse. Anything like that is protected by copyright and anyone posting it anywhere else without permission - or at the very least acknowledging the author - would be in breach of copyright.

I should add a disclaimer here, that I herebye waive my right to copyright protection on any of my little ditties and anyone is welcome to post them anywhere they wish.