We had to suspend a member tonight for copying and pasting a message from another forum, IN ITS ENTIRETY, and posting it on AVSIM. That is a violation of copyright. Here are our specific Terms of Service as it applies to that and to AVSIM's content:

 

 

Copyright and Intellectual Property: You will not post or otherwise place material on AVSIM, in its library or elsewhere that is protected by copyright or is the intellectual property of another. If you wish to upload or place on AVSIM material copyrighted by someone else, you are required to have their emailed authorization to do so and you must provide that authorization email to AVSIM staff for verification BEFORE you use it within AVSIM. Items such as images that are not made by you, aircraft manuals, images from other sites, etc., are all examples of copyrighted material that you cannot upload or place on AVSIM.

AVSIM's Copyrights: All material and content located within AVSIM and its various sections is either held in copyright by AVSIM or by original content providers. Re-use and dissemination of that material and content is strictly prohibited without prior written consent from AVSIM Online. This includes all written content, whether articles, news or forum material.

 

It is very simple. If the content is not yours, you can't post it in its entirety here. You can EXCERPT it under FAIR USE provisions of the Copyright Acts, but wholesale copying and pasting is a violation of copyright and our ToS'. If you do not have the original copyright holder's permission to do so (which we will demand to see), do not post it here except as an excerpt; that is a sentence or a paragraph at most.

 

We are serious as a heart attack folks. We may be the only website in the entire universe that enforces this, but we are on the right side of the law and we are doing the right thing for our members and original content providers. Please use your head when posting content from elsewhere.

 

If you have any questions or need clarification, please post your questions in this thread.

Ya gotta love the legal system.

Ya gotta love the legal system.

 

It is more than the legal system; it is the RIGHT thing to do.