Rules Posting Extracts or Articles From Sources Which May Breach Copyright

[Mutt]

Hi all

NewCorp has expressed concern about whole articles (or close to) being cut and pasted onto this site. News claims it breaches their copyright. Posters here are the publisher of each of their posts, so you might be liable for any breach of copyright where you have copied material from another source.

If referring to material from a source outside of this website, the accepted rule on BigFooty is that users may quote one or two paragraphs only and include a link to the full article.

Mods are being asked to remind posters of this requirement:

5. No illegal content; respect copyright owners

• Articles from other sites should be limited to a relevant paragraph or two and a link to the source.

Please adhere to the above site rules so that the Mods don't need to involve themselves in your posting.

Take care and Go Bullies!

Mutt

 

[Mutt]

Further to the above post, here is the request that site management has made to Moderators:

Warn Users

There is a new Warning to apply to posts which you believe to contain infringing material - mainly full copies of news articles:

Possible copyright material.

The user will get this message with the Warning:

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This post looks like it may contain re-published material from another source:

{url}

You are the publisher of your posts, so copyright holders are within their rights to request the removal of their material, and to take action against you for breach of copyright if you do not.

Please remove any posts which contain, for instance, full articles from news organisations or material which might otherwise breach the copyright of a third party.

You may of course retain small portions of material which you are directly commenting on, and link to the source - just edit the post and take out the excess material, and link to the source if you have not already.

Posting or failing to remove such material could be against our terms of service:

Terms and rules​

You must agree to these terms and rules before using the site.

www.bigfooty.com

Particularly:

You agree to not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which:

risks copyright infringement,

The Big Interest Group Terms of Service include this clause:

Terms Of Service | Big Interest Group

15. Copyright and trade mark policies

15.1 It is Big Interest Group’s policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable international intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.

So please remember, when using material that may be the copyright of another party, you must:

• Use only that portion you are directly commenting on. A reasonable guide might be a paragraph or two.
• Always link to the source.

Thank you for your attention on this matter. Please let us know if you have any questions.

 

[ossie_21]

Bulldogs85 tends to have any Bulldogs article on speed dial & posted here, so maybe special attention for them lol

Even if it’s with good intentions

 

[Doggies7]

 

[Bulldogs85]

Bulldogs85 tends to have any Bulldogs article on speed dial & posted here, so maybe special attention for them lol

Even if it’s with good intentions

Cool I would be more then happy to stop posting on this site then if I break any rules

 

[ossie_21]

Cool I would be more then happy to stop posting on this site then if I break any rules

I wasn’t having a go at you, just pointing it out so that doesn’t have to happen.

By the sounds of it linking the article or Twitter/X link or whatever is fine, it’s more the people that post the things that are behind paywalls.

Which would be what it’s all about, the dollar.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Stop giving NewsCorp oxygen. It only postpones their demise.

 

[Next Waiting]

And so it begins.

For all you posters of Fox media content ... are the alarm bells beginning to ring?

In the lead up to absolute power it wasn't so topical, but now that absolute power has been granted, you use, you pay, one way or another. The pay part is a disincentive to use for your editorial licence. We'll tell you what to think. You're only required to consume.

Welcome to the new world.

Wedge....thin edge of ....

How much longer, for example, do you think Foxtel is going to carry CNN or similar. I expect it to disappear soon, and a licence to broadcast internationally extremely difficult if not impossible to obtain....given they're not a rubber stamp and inclined to air alternative/dissenting perspectives from time to time.

Sure, BF is being pressured into not allowing Fox media to be cut and pasted. But soon enough the pressure will come for all media and the pressure will come from the same source. It's death by a thousand cuts. Slow, painful .... effective.

 

[BEaston]

Haha ****ing newscorp. What trash.

 

[BrisDog]

Rupert is hurting fella’s

 

[Thunderoad]

It would have cost News Corp more to instruct their internal legal council to write a cease and decist letter to Big Footy than the pittance they would lose from their content being re-published on this website.

Then again, they've been happy to run The Australian at a year on year loss for decades on the basis of perceived political influence so prudent financial decisions aren't necessarily important to the Murdochs.

 

[stefoid]

Pretty fond of the law when it benefits them, but not so much when it involves paying tax

You know what to do