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Old 3rd July 2009, 10:14 AM   #3
Lee
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Exclamation Commercial Use of Discussion Forum Posts

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There is no enforceable external legal constraint against posting an object for discussion in a forum such as ours and later deciding to sell the item and posting a link to the discussion in the forums. However, if a forum member does this without having received the permission of the authors of the relevant posts in advance for such commercial use of their remarks, this constitutes grounds for cancellation of the offender's forum registration.
<yawn> To remind and clarify, having noticed two examples this past week, as the rules presently stand, this also includes links from the swap forum to the discussion forums, as useful as they potentially are. As long as no one who had posted on the discussion thread complains, the bear will sleep. But, if the bear is awakened, the reflex is to swipe... <snore>
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