Permission to Use Comments?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 11:14 +0000, Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…]
> 1) Does anyone know how copyright laws stand regarding reuse of 
> comments on a forum?

IANAL, but… I believe emails, and I suspect forum posts, are copyright since
they are literary works. Quoting them with reference to the original source
is, I believe, fair use. But that depends on the jurisdiction. For forums I
would guess that the jurisdiction of the server handling the UI (and possibly
the one holding the storage if different) is the jurisdiction for copyright
law. For emails it is likely weird, and not at all obvious.

> 2) Does anyone object to me quoting them for promotional purposes?

Not I. I am happy for comments I make regarding GtkDCoding on this email list
to be used above my name on the GtkDCoding website.

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Russel.
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