Posted by Dodge on September 28, 2000 at 13:02
In Reply to: Re: A snag posted by Alex on September 28, 2000 at 02:06
I still tend to agree with you on this. I can't see anything on this board that says people who post stories (as opposed to short comments which aren't copyrightable anyway) here have signed away their intellectual property rights to Wet Set. That Wet Set have provided this forum for free just isn't relevant in any way:-
"Ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, is distinct from ownership of any material object
in which the work is embodied." (That's the U.S. Law anyhow).
If Wet Set want to charge for access to these stories they should do the honest thing and come to some arrangement (financial, if necessary, or free access to the pay site) with the authors of those stories.
This post is, of course, Copyright by Dodge in the year 2000. All rights reserved.