Posted: 26 December 2007 at 7:35pm | IP Logged

joshlowe wrote: Why no? When I got all pro piracy about the movie, I'm pretty sure you inisted that due to home recording ease, TV show laws were un-enforceable and therefore not the same, and that, to the best of my knowledge, no one in the UK yet owns broadcast rights, and of course, this site was fine with links for Galaxy Force and One Piece.

There are 9009 threads on this site; have you read them all? I haven't. Am I obliged to? No. If I'm asked what the site policy is I am going to give it - it is hardly my fault if things are happening outside of my knowledge, that's why we have moderators.

Is there something you wish to make a formal complaint about?

Posted: 26 December 2007 at 10:35pm | IP Logged

In reply to Josh's most recent post;

There's no overreaching policy against the use of all copyrighted materials.  This would not be an enjoyable website if we were never able to post media.

The site has no problem with members posting media within reason; as you rightly point out, that results in a degree of staff discretion, which is why the subject is not heavily detailed in the site rules (though I can easily amend those if it is still confuson). This area of discretion is to cover items such as screencaps, images, and small videos such as trailors.  A decent 'rule' would be that we shouldn't allow the posting of items that are/are likely to be commercially available.  So for instance, Screengrabs/images/trailors/and any officially released clips from TF:Animated are unlikely to be deemed unsuitable, wheras entire episodes (which are likely to be sold on DVD at some point) would be.

As I say, there is of course an area of staff discretion as there is with all rules, but this is the general site policy.  Does that clear the issue up at all?

Posted: 26 December 2007 at 11:02pm | IP Logged

Blaster wrote: You can tell Josh is half German nit picking every forum detail and policy! thorough! I will give you that much Josh. But he is right! he as in Prez!! "what if" everyone could post up what they wanted? it would be chaos and utter messiness. Me! I disagree with the whole screening and downloading this and that, it's ruining the Business world you know  I have to say that!

Erm...thankyou, I think! But Josh isn't wrong in wanting clarification. People often use discretion as a way to mask their inability to make a stance; that isn't right, it is good to have somebody question the rules. They're our rules afterall. Discretion should be used to help bridge grey areas. I like things written down.

That said, the porn rule stands

Posted: 27 December 2007 at 11:28am | IP Logged

Sixshot wrote:  We're allowed it?

No

Posted: 27 December 2007 at 1:04pm | IP Logged

Nem, what you need to ask yourself is WWFD. What Would Freefalll Do.

If the answer is "Yes, Freefall would do that" then I'd strongly recommend NOT posting it!

Posted: 27 December 2007 at 1:13pm | IP Logged

Nemesis Scourge wrote: Duh_Prez wrote: A decent 'rule' would be that we shouldn't allow the posting of items that are/are likely to be commercially available.  So for instance, Screengrabs/images/trailors/and any officially released clips from TF:Animated are unlikely to be deemed unsuitable, wheras entire episodes (which are likely to be sold on DVD at some point) would be. So basically, as long as we don't post links to episodes in their entirety, we can post whatever media links we like within reason, yes?

Nah, that would mean we could post the new movie in HD in it's entirity, split into two videos rather than one. That wouldn't be right.

Posted: 27 December 2007 at 1:33pm | IP Logged

Basically, nothing that is, or is likely to be available via purchase-able means can be posted, stuff that is not, or is unlikely to be so can be?  

Posted: 27 December 2007 at 3:21pm | IP Logged

Basically, yes... well that's what I think is the best route anyway.

Posted: 28 December 2007 at 10:02am | IP Logged

Galvanise_ wrote: While we are on this topic, Why is it that fansites such as TFW2005.com can post pictures of unreleased material, design sketches etc from the movie while it is in progress, and we can't. Do TFW2005 have some sort of dodgy agreement with the film makers as a way to 'leak' designs?

I'm not sure if it's a case of "Can" rather than "Do"