HOW TRUE

Look at what happened to me the other night I was on another website and while they did not know who I was they were coming to psych central with out logging in. I know at least two out of the five were definiately NOT members here for they said so during the conversation, but anyway they came here and copied and pasted my posts and others from the community boards on that other website.

A friend of mine and I one night found a poem that she had wrote one night in a real time support group and had posted it in her blog and now it is on at least 8 different websites and not one of those people credited her, in fact they were claiming she wrote them. When she wrote to the webmasters (owners of those sites they told her too bad its on line in a public area that means its open to all the world to use as they see fit. The only way they would remove those posts with her poem was if she sent the webmaster copies of the library of congress paper saying they were legally copywrited by the library of congress. Shh now pay the library of congress $35.00 a poem for that official seal (as do I)

anyone can go anywhere on the world wide web and copy and past what they find.

Look how many times people here have gone to other blogs, and websites and have posted a quote from someone elses blog or a link or article or song lyrics or song vidoes, pet vidios, and other peoples quotes and in alot of cases it was probably done with out that websites or authors of the articles permission. How many of us actually write to sinead oconor, kenny chestney or who ever to obtain that permission. I know I do.

Heres another thing I just thought of to think about.... If we are following that site guideline that was previously quoted..... It may be on this site but even people within this site are quoting other members without obtaining their permission when they reply to that persons post. The site rule is that the posts are the posters and cannot be reposted without permission of the poster but yet this guideline is violated by many including me everyday where people are "quoting" or cut and pasting someone elses posts in order to form their replys - as for my posts I know that those that quote my posts and parts of my posts have not asked me permission to do so when they are making their replys. And I know that those that are posting quotes and or links of my posts and blog within their own blog did not ask my permission to do so.

I would think that if it is NOT acceptable for people to take what was said here within the community PUBLIC boards to outside places like blogs and other websites then the same should be followed within the community - in being That Quoting other peoples posts to reply is NOT acceptable and that its NOT acceptable to bring in from outside sourses like song lyrics, pictures, book quotes, other peoples blog entries, links to other mental health websites and so forth without the permission of the authors of those works.