Selling Other People's Pics

[Bricktop]

This is mine. Unless and until I yield copyright to another entity, it will always and forever remain my property.



However, I recognise the right of this forum proprietor to PUBLISH it for public viewing. Especially for rev heads... ac_bashful



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[RW]

A forum only owns the images if the owner has surrendered copyright. The forum can say all they want. That doesn't mean its lawful or correct. Memebee does NOT own my images. I do.

All posts are property of memeBee.

I'm not a copyright lawyer but I would interpret that as being an unlimited royalty-free license to reproduce text and images. By posting it you would effectively be agreeing to share ownership.

The creator of the image retains copyright.  We are using words like share.  The actual verb is "publish".  Another site re-publishes the original image.

Unless the author signs away the rights then I would agree that ownership is retained, but isn't the act of posting it on a forum the same thing as granting an exclusive license to republish?

Republishing doesn't change the right of ownership.