[wp-forums] Giving WordPress.org permission to publish information publicly

[andrew nevins]

okie dokie

By the way I think he wants the entire threads deleted because it's his
display name that he is probably complaining about. Try Googline "
*Drahcirness"*


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:59 AM, andrew nevins
> <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does WordPress.org forums have to get permission from people to publish
> > their forum posts publicly?
> >
> > Or is the act of that the person sharing information on the public
> > WordPress.org forum the equivalent of granting WordPress.org permission
> to
> > post that information publicly?
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-delete-posts?replies=10
>
> Just to prevent everybody from running with it, no, there is no
> explicit permission needed to reproduce material on forums. When you
> submit a creative work (a post, a comment, etc) to somewhere, by the
> act of doing that, you grant them implicit permission to reproduce
> that work for the purposes of displaying it. That is, after all, why
> you submitted it. Otherwise, you lead to the nonsense situation of
> having the ability to post on a forum and then sue the forum for
> violation of your copyright by actually showing the post you submitted
> to them.
>
> Second, we don't edit or delete material when people complain about
> Google's indexing of our forums because once we start down that path,
> it is unending. If somebody doesn't want something public, don't post
> it in a public form. You can delete real names, phone numbers, email
> address, other personally identifying info, sure. But links to
> websites? Ridiculous.
>
> Finally, I looked at the thread he's actually complaining about, and
> for the life of me, I cannot see his "company name" or site name
> anywhere. There's nothing to delete.
> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-google-snippets
>
> -Otto
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