You can rip anything of mine. I recommend that you have a word with Alex to see if it can be accomodated here.
It is technically possible and rather easy too, what remains is the legal issue.
Feel free to use my reviews any way that suits. But the prospect of reposting 300+ reviews is just a little daunting!
I’ve written a few (pretty harsh, I think) reviews, and you may use them as you see fit.
Any movement on this?
Well yes. We have ‘ripped’ every single review so we can theoretically rebuild them all into a new review site/section of a site. I hesitate for two reasons: are all these reviews in the public domain and hence, can we re-post them at will with no repercussions? Secondly, it is no small task. it will take days of solid work. I don’t want to commit Patrick the IT snuffer guy to it if all the reviews simply sit languishing on a dead site/page with no more contributions. Any thoughts?
I think it’d be cool, to have a list of reviews under each product available, sorta like how Blabbermouth.com does for CD reviews, where people can add their reviews or comments about said CD.
As to republishing the SR reviews on a different site: user-driven content is a grey area, but this particular situation has all the traits of a site where you would need affirmative, explicit permission from any user you wanted to republish. There’s a record of users’ real names, content is date-stamped, and it’s hosted in a Berne Convention nation with no other user agreements. To grossly oversimplify, legal copyright is automatic. (And Al claims explicit copyright to the site at the bottom of each page, though which content that covers is arguable.) I seriously doubt anyone would say no if you asked them about migrating their reviews–in this thread alone, some of the most prolific reviews have already said okay–but legally speaking, this is not a case where it’s “easier to apologize than ask.” Caveat: I’m not a lawyer–I just finished an MFA in writing, and this kind of thing is discussed because understanding copyright (esp. for digital media) is a matter of professional survival.
I wonder if a note at the top of the reviews on another site that stated that if anybody prefers not to have their reviews republished they need only drop a note and all their reviews will be removed would suffice. it is way too time-consuming to attempt to get permission from every single reviewer.
@ Mr.snuff: I would just start again and tell people they can move reviews to the site if they want to.
well at least the snuffreviews site is still getting spam the yahoo group where i first went to learn about snuff and post sometimes is completly dead these days its a shame … looks like this place is the only decent english site left anyone here start on the yahoo group like myself ?
Yes, I did but I got fed up with being offered British visas and cheap college courses.
I did too.