Debating the use of certain Entmoot messages on Aldesign's website

[Ben]

Welcome to the board SW. I'm sorry that the first thing you see is this debate, very uncharacteristic for the board.

Btw, for those of you only viewing the thread, we working things out via Instant Messenger, and I think we're all friends now . Hopefully we can have all the details posted soon.

Secondly it says in the terms and conditions something along the lines of : "All posts are the views of the author, and not necessarily the opinions of the staff of Entmoot, the Tolkien Trail, or Jelsoft (makers of vBulletin)."

So firstly you guys say that whatever is posted has nothing to do with you. Legally that is smart but is it not a little Hypocritical to also say that you guys own everything that is posted on here ?

That's a valid point. However, I don't see it as hypocritical for both to be true.

You see, we bought this bulletin board and installed it on the server we pay for. The posts themselves are our property, as being a part of this software we own. We can do whatever we want with the actual posts (close, delete, edit, move, etc). However, I don't know if the content is necessarily ours. It would make sense if primary ownership is given to the person who actually wrote it. But again, I am not familiar with the details of our copyright laws.

It is also true that the posts do not have to reflect the opinions of the staff. Aldesign is posting on this board which is owned by us, for example, but I don't agree with anything he's saying.