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[Bobby_3111]

Got this one yesterday, lol.

to shithead writer
03/10/10 By: Anonymous
by internet copyright law anything posted on the internet is copyrighted even if it dosen't say so that means you broke the law by deleting a comment and could be fined or arrested if you don't want bad comments don't accept any at all it's all or none but you can not delete any comments for any reason if the commenter turns you in you will wish you never wrote a story in your life so put your weak ego aside and live with it or stop writing you deserve all the bad comments you get and should be banned from the site

 

[driphoney]

Ok. That one was definitely worth sharing. Thanks for the chuckle.

I do hope you keep this masterpiece.

 

[sr71plt]

A whole new, fresh angle on stupidity. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Got this one yesterday, lol.

to shithead writer
03/10/10 By: Anonymous
by internet copyright law anything posted on the internet is copyrighted even if it dosen't say so that means you broke the law by deleting a comment and could be fined or arrested if you don't want bad comments don't accept any at all it's all or none but you can not delete any comments for any reason if the commenter turns you in you will wish you never wrote a story in your life so put your weak ego aside and live with it or stop writing you deserve all the bad comments you get and should be banned from the site

Outside his functional illiteracy, he is somewhat correct. Anything posted on the internet is copyrighted but, if somebody adds to your copyrighted story, you own the copyright on that comment. This means you can delete it, if you want to, but nobody else can.

 

[Darkniciad]

Outside his functional illiteracy, he is somewhat correct. Anything posted on the internet is copyrighted but, if somebody adds to your copyrighted story, you own the copyright on that comment. This means you can delete it, if you want to, but nobody else can.

What? *laugh* You don't own the copyright to their comment. If anything, the relationship is more akin to a publisher and an author, without a contract involved.

They submit their work, and you reject to publish it by deleting the comment. If they gave you the only copy of the "manuscript", that's their own fault. Otherwise, they are free to take their masterpiece to the next story they want to bash down the line.

 

[sr71plt]

Ummm, Boxlicker (snigger). Copyright has nothing to do with preserving or deleting anything on the Internet--or even ownership of anything added or deleted to anything posted to the Internet.

As for the original poster, I assume he's never thrown anything away he's received in the mail--or a paperback book he bought--because he's been a good little boy about honoring his concept of copyright protection. (snigger)

What a comment put on one of your stories is like (in relationship to copyright) is a letter sent to you. That's one of the few areas of copyright law that has been established well. You receive a letter, it's yours to do with as you like--sell, publishing, burn, use as a coaster for your martini glass, color between the lines with crayon. Whatever (short of claiming you wrote it, of course, if you didn't). It was a gift, under law. (And it's a gift to Literotica, rather than the writer of the story it's appended to--and I'll bet that's stated in the Web site use rules--and, by giving the author an "erase comment" button, the Web site is empowering the author to keep or reject the coment/gift him/herself.)

 

[Darkniciad]

What a comment put on one of your stories is like (in relationship to copyright) is a letter sent to you. That's one of the few areas of copyright law that has been established well. You receive a letter, it's yours to do with as you like--sell, publishing, burn, use as a coaster for your martini glass, color between the lines with crayon. Whatever (short of claiming you wrote it, of course, if you didn't). It was a gift, under law.

*Filing that nugget of knowledge away*

I think I knew that in the abstract, but my brain had always connected it only with such from public figures, like the letters from Lincoln and JFK that always auction for umpteen dollars, or autographed pictures and the like.

 

[LaRocha]

Your story, how it's presented on this site, belongs to Literotica, that's what one-time publishing rights means. The story and comment sections are property of Literotica. The comment section is published material, only so far as graffiti is published material on someone's wall. Lit gives you permission to squeegee their walls of comments you don't like. You also have to ask for their permission to edit or take down your story, because you don't actually have the right to what's presented on their site.

You can copyright pretty much any type of letter you send. Lawyers copyright everything that leaves their office.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/DozierInternetLaw/InternetLawyer/prweb650951.htm

 

[bronzeage]

Copyright infringement does not mean much unless the offender either makes money from it, or deprives the copyright holder of income.

If someone steals a story from Lit and reposts in on another free site, either under the real author's name, or a different one, there is not much that can be done.

The idea that an internet post can be copyrighted is like saying a conversation in a coffee shop is protected by copyright laws.

 

[3113]

the Web site is empowering the author to keep or reject the coment/gift him/herself.

Yeah, but wait till Bobby takes credit for writing that comment himself! Hah! Then he's gonna be in a whole heap of trouble. That commentor is gonna come after him with lawyer an' all!

If someone steals a story from Lit and reposts in on another free site, either under the real author's name, or a different one, there is not much that can be done

Actually, yes, something can be done. Laurel has gone after people who've stolen and posted stories from Lit and had their websites shut down, because it is stealing whether or not anyone is making money. We gave Laurel permission to post them. We didn't give anyone else permission to do that. A songwriter can create a song for free, gifting it to a political commercial, but if the opposing politician (who the songwriter hates) uses that song, the songwriter can sue them for copyright infringement. Whether anyone made money with the song doesn't matter.

The idea that an internet post can be copyrighted is like saying a conversation in a coffee shop is protected by copyright laws.

Well, not quite the same. It is written down. SR7 is more right in that it's like a letter. What's wrong in this situation is the idea that anything copyrighted cannot be erased. This site is owned by certain people. So it's like a coffee house with a corkboard. Customers can pin up messages on lost dogs and signs about upcoming events. Depending on the owners, customers may be allowed to pin up religious or political slogans--or the owners could take those down if someone pins them up. What the owners presumably could not do is copy that message, put their own name on it (taking credit for it), and pin it up to other corkboards around the city. (In truth, few of us mind that until and unless it starts to gain someone fame and fortune. Then we say, "Hey! They didn't write that!").

As SR7 said, our stories have their own little "corkboards" attached there at the end, and we've been given permission by this site to clean off that board however we like. Note that we do not have permission to edit what gets pinned up. We can't take a comment that has some good and some bad things to say about our story and erase only the bad. Which proves that it is "copyrighted" in its way.