| When, where, what can you share. Posted by grahame at 20:15, 24th August 2025 |     |
Copyright and more - please read through just to remind yourself if you're a Coffee Shop poster.
This is complex. From Copyrightlaws.com, who provide information and courses to help you (and me) learn best practise to legally share from other places (Copyright).
THE BOTTOM LINE ON SHARING AND REPUBLISHING ONLINE CONTENT
Yes, there’s a lot to think about when it comes to copyright, so it’s important to familiarize yourself with the copyright basics. It’s also good to know when and where to turn for guidance when issues come up.
Sharing and republishing online content can be straightforward at times and complex at others. Developing best practices for legally using third-party online content will help you stay copyright compliant and keep your risk of copyright infringement to a minimum
Yes, there’s a lot to think about when it comes to copyright, so it’s important to familiarize yourself with the copyright basics. It’s also good to know when and where to turn for guidance when issues come up.
Sharing and republishing online content can be straightforward at times and complex at others. Developing best practices for legally using third-party online content will help you stay copyright compliant and keep your risk of copyright infringement to a minimum
There's a degree of irony here in that so many sites and so much content is out there and can be easily copied - indeed they provide "share" buttons - and yet what permission does that imply?
The general rule on copyright is that (if nothing else is stated) you can share short sections for critical review where you are not doing so for commercial gain. You should routinely give your source, including a link back to the original. And if something is behind a paywall, you should take that as a pretty strong suggestion that the publisher does not want it copied. If in doubt, a link to the original and a note of what's there ...
It's not just copyright for you to consider when posting. So many things from publishing other people's personal data without their permission to inciting violence and simply making a wally of yourself. The safety online laws lay out no less than 17 areas of concern, most of them obvious when you think about them, and our admin and moderator team have one eye open to stop things going belly up.
It's the responsibility of you - the original poster - to keep to the law in addition to our forum guidelines, but if we notice something (and we are required to look out) and leave it when it should not be there, we can be in trouble too. Please feel free to ask if you have any doubts about what you can post, and help us by reporting things that you suspect should not have been posted.
P.S. - the rules don't just apply to text - they also apply to photographs, videos, and sounds. And (personal opinion) all this lot makes sense - why should material providers who have investing in producing it sit back and see others sharing it - freeloading off their work?
