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Is there a content license for IllinoisCarry.com?

 

I don't recall seeing one when I signed up. Even if I did, I don't see a license statement anywhere else. It's a thought that occurred to me because of:

Yes you can.

[... reuse a photo of Otis McDonald]

 

There's "Copyright © 2016 IllinoisCarry.com | All Rights Reserved." on the front page, but it's not clear that it applies to forum content (nor would I necessarily want it to apply to forum content).

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Is there a content license for IllinoisCarry.com?

 

I don't recall seeing one when I signed up. Even if I did, I don't see a license statement anywhere else. It's a thought that occurred to me because of:

Yes you can.

[... reuse a photo of Otis McDonald]

 

There's "Copyright © 2016 IllinoisCarry.com | All Rights Reserved." on the front page, but it's not clear that it applies to forum content (nor would I necessarily want it to apply to forum content).

 

FYI - I took that photo and was giving him permission to use it.

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Since the copyright notice is not on any forum pages, I wouldn't expect it to apply to any forum content.

 

For example, Facebook owns a copy of any content posted or uploaded. By posting or uploading, you agree to grant Facebook a license to use their copy of your content any way they like, including transferring a copy and its license to a third party. You further agree that Facebook does not owe you compensation for that content or its license or royalties for the use of the content.

 

The interesting thing about the Facebook license is that they give you an option to terminate the license. If you delete content from your account, you revoke the (implicit) license you previously granted Facebook. Many sites specify that posting or uploading content grants the license in perpetuity, even if you later delete the content.

 

A lot of people overreact to Facebook's terms, saying that Facebook "steals" the rights to content you created. As the original creator, you still have a copyright to content you create. Facebook does not become the owner. Facebook just gets to use your content royalty-free, until you delete it.

 

Obviously IllinoisCarry.com doesn't pay anyone for anything they post. As for the rest, I don't want to make it complicated, but I wonder if some default license would apply to forum content at IllinoisCarry.com.

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FYI - I took that photo and was giving him permission to use it.

... which you could do as the copyright holder, no matter what license terms applied because it was posted here, because you could do that even if it weren't posted here.

 

The question, though, is if that was necessary. Does posting the photo here implicitly grant any reader the license to re-use it?

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It should qualify under fair use.

For a photograph, unless it's thumb-nailed, reuse without license or author permission is piracy. Fair use has several other conditions that would have to be met, as well, like public interest (e.g., education or debate, like the Zapruder film) or transformative extent of the reuse (e.g., parody).

 

"Here's a cool picture I like, unaltered and at full resolution" isn't fair use.

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