kanewai wrote:My understanding of social media is that the default is: the site owner owns the distribution rights to all content - so they can post it elsewhere, use it in advertisements, incorporate it into a book, etc. However, the original author still holds the actual copyright to any content that they submitted unless they have specifically signed it away.
Meaning: I can't import anyone else's posts here, but I can certainly carry over my own log.
I'm an uninformed amateur, and you shouldn't take legal advice from me. But yes, as I understand it, your understanding of US law is approximately correct, except for a list of tedious exceptions. And as noted, I don't know what rules apply to European users at all.
However, I would still be deeply ambivalent about people to doing any kind of large-scale bulk imports from the other forum at the moment. I want to make another attempt to talk to the administrator again soon (if only to tell him his company site is offline), and I'd really like that to be friendly conversation. If people import huge amounts of content from his forum, that would put me in a pretty awkward place.
Like I said, I know that nobody wants to hear this. And yes, I'm really upset that my old logs are offline right now, and I do plan to put them back online somewhere else if the situation persists. But I'm not uploading them here, not right now, because I'm trying to avoid even the appearance of any possible impropriety.