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Originally Posted by TylerH860
I've never taken any moderation action against anyone for copyright violations because I don't really understand it myself. Coincidentally we have been discussing it in the moderator forums as well.
The post was reported by the former moderator that wrote the enhanced TOU and another moderator acted based on the current TOU setup. It was not politically bent, it was only acted upon because it was reported. Obviously this is not a perfect system, but we are human and imperfect individuals trying to do the best we can.
Bill (the former owner and webmaster) was very worried about getting in trouble for copyright violations by members posts and ask that we step it up. This seemed to be only with text, not pictures or graphs. The new owners have looked at the same laws and have a more Laissez faire attitude towards it. It seems the posters are liable for copyright infringement and we are insulated as a mere conduit, but there's no clear definition as to what constitutes crossing the line.
This is something we are discussing and hope to have a clean cut resolution on soon.
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Damn, so TomW reported that sjh violated TOU provision?
And it wasn't a group decision as a moderator stated, it was a single moderator that decided it was a violation?
And the violation was only for the cut and paste of the copy righted written text portion not the cut and past of the copy righted text/picture as a moderator stated?
And when you state that it was not "politically bent" are you refering only to the decision that it was a violation? Or has the the person who reported the sjh posting as a alleged violation also been reporting any other alleged violations?
"There was an initial complaint regarding the post that led to all this. The complaint was that Forum
copy write rules/regulations had been broken. We as moderators discussed how to handle the posting. We interpreted that the cut/paste of Copyrighted text/picture is against the rules for posting. We discussed various ways on how to handle the posting and one of the ways was to delete everything except the first few words of the title and leave the link in post #1 which is what I did. "