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.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Landau
Sent: 16 November 2006 16:56
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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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