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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7629698, member: 105098&quot;]Coin talk isn&#039;t my forum, so they can do whatever they like with it and what is or isn&#039;t acceptable but a judge is more likely to make a determination of fair use if the defendant&#039;s use is noncommercial, educational, scientific, or historical purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as me personally, its non-commercial, usually educational, scientific, or historic, but I don&#039;t know if Coin talk could say the same, I assume the website must generate some sort of revenue from traffic, so postings on the site by a 3rd party could be seen as commercial use for the site itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all know it&#039;s a litigious world out there, people get copyright tagged on youtube every second of the day by bots looking for it in order to make a claim and get the revenue from the videos and commercials. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part I&#039;ll normally post a link to an article and post a headline and give an overview on what it&#039;s about. I won&#039;t even bother doing this if access to the article isn&#039;t free. I&#039;m not going to send you guys to subscription sites. LOL</p><p>&nbsp;All of that is fair use but it doesn&#039;t mean a bot out there isn&#039;t going to tag it and make a claim and unless you like court, most folks immediately take it down and desist just from a simple claim, or have rules barring it from happening and policing their site to avoid it. </p><p><br /></p><p>it&#039;s really not a big deal, and it&#039;s bound to happen with user generated content. As long as the site is removing it and desisting when a claim is made, it&#039;s fine. I have NO earthly idea why a writer or musician, or photographer wouldn&#039;t want their creations to get in the most eyes and ears possible, but I do understand they gotta make a living somehow also and if it&#039;s too freely available, they don&#039;t make money. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everything is copyrighted the moment it is created, you&#039;d have to register a copyright in order to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a copyright though, but literally any and all original work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that can be seen or heard directly or with the aid of a machine or device indirectly. Registration of a copyright is voluntary and not necessary to make a claim but necessary for a lawsuit. </p><p><br /></p><p>in my opinion, it&#039;s mostly a shakedown looking to get into someone pocket due to many honest to goodness fair use reasons, but in some cases it&#039;s legit claims.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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