It sounds like a cute cartoon.
Data Protection is...
Nick Landau
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From: "Tim Trent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Who has legal ownership of the posts on
webbased forums?
>I suggest it probably depends upon the "contract" when someone registers
> for the first time. But if there is no such contract, what then?
>
> Equally, permission is not for ever.
>
> It isn't even Friday.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Landau
> Sent: 16 November 2006 16:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [data-protection] Who has legal ownership of the posts on
> webbased
> forums?
>
> Maybe someone can answer this which relates to Data Protection.
>
> This has been posted to a legal newsgroup:
>
> "Who has legal ownership of the posts on webbased forums...?
>
> Example
>
> A regular poster requests the mods to remove his account and all 2k posts
> (he has seen this request before and seen it done) However the mods just
> delete his account. He is now powerless to remove his posts himself.
>
> What is the legal aspect of this?"
>
> Such an example might be this group.
>
> I "resign" and "demand" that you remove all my posts.
>
> If someone has been so active in the forum (2000 posts), then their
> comments
> would appear in every thread and by such a demand would spell the very end
> of the forum.
>
> Indeed it has occurred to me that if one wanted to sabotage a private
> web-based group this would be a very good way of doing it.
>
> I have seen http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/policy/copyright.htm which
> compares sending an post to sending a letter to a newspaper.
>
> Nick Landau
>
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