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Torry, I think you need to brush up on copywrite law. I own the
content I provided. When I provided it, I did NOT assign my rights to
SE-R.net beyond the immediate use there. Just because it's readable on
SE-R.net doesn't entitle anyone, including the owner(s) of SE-R.net,
to grant the use of my content. It belongs to me. End of story. And of
course, the same with other content providers. SE-R.net was only
allowed to *use* my content, but I granted that use. Anybody else
risks a letter from a lawyer demanding money.
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Your interpretation of ownership of content may be based upon some
terms of use by some web sites. However, a blanket terms of use
statement doesn't always hold up. For instance, Facebook was
successfully sued because they would post on people's Timeline that
some friend liked some business, for which Facebook charged that
business as advertising. Facebook's terms of use that we all agree to,
states that any content provided belongs expressly to Facebook. Well,
the courts didn't agree. Furthermore, my (and other's) contribution to
SE-R.net was not an assignment of all our rights covered by some terms
of use. It was a one-time assignment of rights to SE-R.net. When
SE-R.net is through with the content, the rights of use are dissolved.
The owner has no right to sell or even give the content to anyone
else. And it damned sure is NOT in the public domain.
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So, NICO (or anyone else) has the right to use this content just
because it was published on the web. Furthermore, SE-R.net (or
actually it's owner(s)) don't have the right to provide that content
to anyone else without the expressed written consent of the copyright
owner.
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At various times I do or did shoot a lot of running races and
triathlons. I put the photos on the web for free *personal* use.
Commercial use is strictly forbidden. I'd sue someone's ass off if
they used one or more of my photos commercially (same for my written
words). I own the intellectual property. No one else. Period.
Otherwise they will see me in court.
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I don't mean to be harsh, but there is a LOT of misunderstanding of
copyright and who owns what and most of that is due to the ease of
grabbing someone else's content off the web.
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Geo, fair enough.  I'm just suggesting that anything that is hosted
on se-r.net that is publicly available (to read, not copy), be
transferred to NICO as its new hosting site so that the information
lives on.  If NICO gets granted permission to use SE-R.net content
on our site, then we don't need to request permission by individual
contributors.  I'm not saying we won't, but I'm just saying we
wouldn't need to.  It's like if somebody posted information in a
forum somewhere.  The forum at that point has the right to grant
permission to another site to use any of its content, despite who
the individual poster is.
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Anyway, I think we're starting to get away from the topic at hand.
 I'm just asking nicely if it can be worked out where NICO can take
the dirty job of going through all the info on SE-R.net and sorting
it and cleaning it up and hosting it to take it off of Larry's
hands.  I want to see the information live on in a modern format.
 That's all.
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