Sosuave.net is the owner of my posts?

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Hi everybody! I'm new to this forum and I got a question. What does it mean
that sosuave.net/Allen Thompson is the owner of the posts here? (One of
the rules you have to accept by registration).
I know this is a dumb problem but I just wanna know.
 

check_mate_kid_uk

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Its just for copyright purposes. If you post something on here the copyright belongs to sosuave, so if you where to try and sell it you would be breaking the copyright.

I think it is done to stop someone coming along and using the posts here to write a book and sell it, but either way its not very important for you so dont worry about it.
 

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Allen does not hold copyright of the content of your posts, even though it's said, somewhere, that he does. But saying it does doesn't make it so.

Just for the sake of it, I clicked on "register" just to see what type of legal disclaimer people must swear by. The terms of the site in regards to copyright, don't have a snowball's chance in hell of standing up in court if ever someone collected the posts they made and published it into a book or turned into a movie. Why, you might ask. Just look. Nowhere in the terms and conditions does it say that posting on here is essentially handing over your copyright to SoSuave. It says that you can't post other people's work but that is the full extent of it. Nowhere do you explicitly say something along the lines of "I give my ownership of copyright to Allen" which is a requirement of copyright law.
Any message posted to this forum becomes the property of SoSuave.com/Global Marketing/Allen Thompson and may be used at some point in the future.
Note the word property. That's not copyright. That's saying that when you post, you post on Allen's computer. But he still doesn't own the intellectual rights to it. Even if--even if--in that disclaimer it was stated that by posting on here you were handing your exclusive copyright rights over to SoSuave, it wouldn't be legally valid. Here is a snippet from the US Copyright office:
Any or all of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights or any subdivision of those rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner’s duly authorized agent.
There you go.

I personally plan to use some posts that I wrote and publish them into a book, for money, because this forum is great for fleshing out thoughts. There's nothing legally stopping me from my big plan and there's nothing to stop anyone else. :D
 

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Deep Dish said:
I personally plan to use some posts that I wrote and publish them into a book, for money, because this forum is great for fleshing out thoughts. There's nothing legally stopping me from my big plan and there's nothing to stop anyone else. :D
By all means, do so. From what I understand, the reasoning behind the quote you provided is to enable Allen to send out the "DJ Tip of the Day" and other such promos. Basically, it's an agreement to allow him the use of whatever is posted here in whatever form he would like without having to pay royalties to whoever the original poster is.
 
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