| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/1/2009 10:26:05 PM |
Copyright 2001-2009 Plentyoffish Media INC
I received a message earlier and this was attached at the bottom of it. Until today, I hadn't ever seen such a thing before attached to any mails I have received.
So I gotta know...did someone decide it'd be "okay" to start copyrighting messages exchanged between users, and if so...who said *I* gave them permission to do so? I don't recall giving ANY permission to copyright anything I've said, inferred or otherwise.
Is this a way for POF to start controlling content? Is that what this is about? That my conversations are now the exclusive property of the site and/or owner to use as they see fit?
If the site and/or owner is gonna start copyrighting my words, then this will likely be the last message I ever send.
Anyone else noticed this or was it truly just me?   | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/1/2009 10:34:03 PM | Its not in your message. Go to any page on the site. Its the bottom of your inbox or chemistry or search etc... You just noticed and it happened to be at the bottom of a message in your inbox but its actually at the bottom of every non forum page just about.
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/1/2009 10:45:52 PM | Yea I thought about that too Cowboy, but I took a screen still and uploaded it. If you take a look, you can clearly see it was actually part of the incoming transmission and not at the base of the page or Inbox.
It was part of the message itself.
Take a look:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2saczfm.jpg | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 4:43:01 AM | I don't know how copyright works in your country, but in Australia copyright is automatic.
http://www.copyright.org.au/
In most countrys most communcation on this website would be covered under "Fair Use".
Using another business name for your work however is not. | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 4:56:01 AM |
Anyone else noticed this or was it truly just me? I'm always curious when an anomoly plays out on a website or within an application, and I try to recreate the circumstances that would cause such a thing to happen... here's what I came up with...
Since this was an isolated situation, as in you mentioned that this is the first time but you have not mentioned that it is happening in subsequent email messages, I'm working under this presumption. I'm also presuming that this is a relatively new contact for you (lack of REs in the subject line of the screen shot).
Best guess is that the lady copied and pasted a message that she had written to someone else and accidentally left that little blurb in... if you look at the correspondence history for any one of your contacts, the verbiage shows up at the bottom of the page with little else to mess up using a bottom message as a template.
Also, see this thread regarding copyright on this site:
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts10979193.aspx
Cheers... | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 5:03:26 AM | I'm feeling really popular already!
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/legislation/canadian_law/federal/copyright_act/cdn_copyright_ov.cfm | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 5:42:05 AM |
I received a message earlier and this was attached at the bottom of it. Until today, I hadn't ever seen such a thing before attached to any mails I have received.
I've yet to see it and I get plenty of first contact and repeat emails (for obvious reasons) - The user probably did a cut and paste job - does it smack of a c/p email ?
Chalk it up to a misfire on the part of the sender.
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 8:09:01 AM |
The user probably did a cut and paste job . .
I'm not sure that could actually happen with a cut and paste job.
The text: "Copyright 2001-2009 Plentyoffish Media INC" isn't within the message field at all as far as I can see. There also seems to be other text missing from the OP's example.
I've no idea . . maybe some quirky rendering (?), but here's my example for comparison . . for what it's worth:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5481/messageimage.jpg | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 8:21:01 AM |
I'm not sure that could actually happen with a cut and paste job.
Unless they really did drag their mouse from the bottom up, and then pasted it all into a word processing app and just forgot to delete that portion - it's a stretch I know, and yes it could also be some bizarre rendering given the user is, I think using, Safari with Chrome browser extensions ... that could be the rendering oddity.
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 8:38:44 AM |
. . that could be the rendering oddity.
That kinda has to be it. Otherwise it's difficult to explain what appears to be two different fonts within the message window. | |
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| Copyright? What the hell?
Posted: 7/2/2009 2:17:08 PM | [quoteI've yet to see it and I get plenty of first contact and repeat emails (for obvious reasons) - The user probably did a cut and paste job - does it smack of a c/p email ?
Chalk it up to a misfire on the part of the sender.
Thx Trap. I'll chalk it up to a misfire somewhere, but no it didn't smack of a c/p job. That was what I thought initially may have happened (thus explaining the vast whitespace between message end and the line).
However, ever since that big bruhaha over at Facebook over the same issue (they copyright ALL your materials even if you're no longer there or active and therefore can use anything you print as they see fit with no compensation) made me think that perhaps POF was trying the same thing.
That FB scandal rocked my world. I was just worried POF was headed down the same road is all.
Thx for the replies all. | |
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