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

[andrew nevins]

Actually most of the non-WordPress.org results are just those spam sites
that mimick WordPress.org, so yes, I am confused as to what he wanted
moderated too.


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:13 PM, andrew nevins
<andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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