Make sure you have permission
Posted on 19th February 2008, 21:20 by IBBoard
Following a recent submission that we had to decline I thought it best to remind people about our submission guidelines
One of the things we mention (under two sections) is other people's work. Under 'content types' we say For legal reasons, we cannot take anything that breaches any copyrights
and under 'submission content' we ask you not to include 'Borrowed' content that has been re-used without the original author's permission
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Any work that a person creates is automatically covered by copyright. If you modify that work in any way then you are breaking copyright laws. Even if the author isn't in the community any more and hasn't been seen online in the past year or more then their work is still covered by copyright.
If you can't get a response from an author then you do not have permission to re-use their work. If you don't have permission to re-use their work then we can't host it. A lack of response is not granting permission.
