Acceptable Use and Copyright
What sort of agreement do we need to put in place with a person who registers with and contributes content to the site?
Standard thing these days seems to be along the following lines:
- IT Society and Â鶹´«Ã½AV are providing this website as a service to the IT community
- Users are subject to acceptable use policy, e.g., no spam, defamation, stalking, illegal activities
- Users understand that, by posting content (text, images, graphics) they are granting the IT Society the right to serve that content as part of this website. Â This requires either that the contributor own copyright to the content or obtain explicit permission to post it on this website from the copyright owner
- The Society does not screen content for copyright permissions during submission, but will immediately remove any copyright works from the website upon owner request
- Users in violation of the above are subject to having their content removed and their accounts disabled.
The Society could suggest that users contribute their original content under a Creative Commons license (which one?) so that others in the community can build upon it.
We might have to have Â鶹´«Ã½AV web folks and lawyers review whatever policy we develop.