LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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The public parts will be archived by ArchiveTeam and made available by the Wayback Machine.
Who owns the copyright to this treasury of knowledge, wit and invention?
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Who owns the copyright to this treasury of knowledge, wit and invention?
The site has had the same T&C since the vBulletin days, and the most recent wording was more than a decade ago:
You confirm that images, sounds, text or information that you submit or create ("User Content") whilst using the forum will meet the Rules of Acceptable Use.
You give us unlimited permission to use your User Content and allow others to do the same for no fee. In legal terms this means that you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and perpetual licence to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, adapt, re-format, modify, publish, translate, licence, sub-licence, assign, transfer and sell the User Content anywhere and in any form.
In essence you own the copyright to your content (i.e. you post that I'm replying to) but you grant a right to us to use it (i.e. to show it to others, re-format it, make it public, etc) and you grant a right for us to transfer the content too.
It's that set of rights that allow any public website to operate, and also allow it to be archived.
I draw a very strong line around private stuff regardless of whether it's covered by the T&C above (which it is).
Velocio
Yes.
I'll leave a small link to the discord, but everything else will disappear and then be deleted.
There will be no backup kept after the closure, to ensure the privacy and safety of all private parts of the forum I will delete it all.
The public parts will be archived by ArchiveTeam and made available by the Wayback Machine.