Two things i've noticed you have trouble answering simple questions and you seem to have trouble with basic logic.
Copyright law is such that when you post your writings on someone else's Forum you have given them a limited right to use it. Therefore if you wish to sell the rights to your work it complicates any transactions you wish to make with publishers.
Its why you will see a band take down a selfmade youtube video once they sign a deal with a publisher. The publisher wants the rights protected and leaving it on the Internet for free in their eyes dilutes the value of the work. The problem with a site like FR is the users have no ability to erase a thread. So then by excerpting you retain the control over the work. Its really very simple IF you have taken the time to research and understand how Copyright and the Internet works.
“If” I know how the internet, vis a vis copyright works?
LOL!
I get paid for my art and photography so I *have* to know copyright law.
I forced Yahoo to utterly -kill- a paying business website because they stole and posted 2 of my photos without my permission and refused to remove them.
So, yeah...I know “how it works”.
To answer your previous question, [busy little thing, aren’t we?] sure, bloggers can flog their sites all they want and make money.
To do so on what I consider a -serious- public service forum is disgusting, repulsive and distasteful in the extreme.
Jim has to pay for the bandwidth *we* are blessed with, out of the conviction of his political principles yet there are those who abuse their privilege to post here by pimping their blogs in a parasitic fashion.
If I want trackers, web bugs and bots following my every move, I’ll [foolishly] go visit some XXX or warez site.
*Nothing* in this entire thread actually has jack squat to do with copyright and/or the infringement thereof; it’s about _blog pimps leeching from a legitimate forum, solely to put money in *their* pocket_.
You’ll have to pardon me, but I do dislike seeing JR taken advantage of in such manner.
If *you’re* okay with pay-per-click ticks sucking him dry, that’s your ‘viewpoint’, not mine.