Quote Michigan red="Michigan red"Would it not have been prudent for whoever decided to use our comments to ask on here? I for one (and at least one other person quoted) am not happy this has been done, personally to be associated with a publication like the MEN is rather distasteful.'"
It's a grey area. When you post on a public forum you ceed some copyright to the moderators, such as editing or deleting posts altogether. However, you still have copyright of the words that remain, as do, I assume, RLFANS.
The thing that makes it muddy is posting with a handle or a pseudonym. If such a dispute ever went to court, which would be extreme and probably ludicrous, you would have to prove that a) you were the person posting with that account at that time, and b) you are the owner of that account and this is an alias you go by online. In the process, the shroud of anonymity would fall – you would be outed, so to speak.
As you and others have said on here, you would hope that a certain amount of etiquette would prevail and that people would ask you first before republishing your posts elsewhere.
On a related note, if any of you are on Twitter, these rules don’t apply to text tweets. It is thought unlikely that intellectual property rights would apply to such a short range of words. Photos, however, are a different story, unless the [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/03/instagram_act_explained/‘Instagram Act’[/url comes to fruition.
