• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

Copyright suits - site block

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Mike40-11

New member
As far as I know, the lawsuits that caused the new TFL copyright policy have all come from one organization, the Stephens Group.

Clayton Cramer, one of the targets of their ridiculous suits, has instructions for installing a Firefox add-on that will block ALL Stephens Groups sites from your browser. Block

No point in going where I'm not wanted, I'd hate to inadvertantly infringe their copyright. And I don't want to give them half a cent in ad revenue by accidentally clicking on their sites.
 
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Mal H

Staff
Double Naught Spy said:
Just curious, how is this gun related?
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Oh come on, DNS! You know questions and info in this particular forum don't have to be about guns.

Thanks for the info Mike.
 
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