Timeline for By posting a selection of previously written text here, are we waiving our copyrights to the excerpt?
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 21:41 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | avpaderno | +1 for highlighting words in bold, even if they are hand-written (or mouse-written?). | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 19:17 | comment | added | Pekka | @Neil ah, I get it now, you mean the situation where you put something onto writing.SE, people suggest corrections, and you use them in your work. Technically, if you copy & paste another user's work, that demands attribution no matter how small the snippet is. The only way to avoid that is for the user to grant you the permission to use it without attribution, which they can because they're the content's owner. I have no idea how to do that in a legally binding way though, you'd have to ask a lawyer | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 19:11 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 19:11 | comment | added | Shog9 | @Neil: worth noting that, because of how copyright law is written, it's likely impossible to answer that in a general sense. Asking for help with a small snippet of text, where the answers don't end up constituting a significant portion of your final work, is vastly different from, say, compiling a book from all the questions and answers you've participated in. If you end up in the situation where you're effectively asking the folks on Writers.SE to help you compose a chapter, that would definitely demand attribution; getting advice on introducing a character, not so much. | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 19:03 | comment | added | Pekka | @Neil I don't see the general need for indicating previous publication in the printed final book. You may need to indicate it to your publisher so you don't violate your contract with them when selling them your work, but otherwise, mentioning SO/SE when you're the original author sounds rather weird. But of course, for binding info, absolutely consult an IP lawyer, yeah | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | Andrew Barber | +17 for the diagram. Unfortunately, all the votes but one were reversed by the vote fraud algo. | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | On the one hand, it sounds like one would have to indicate on, say, a copyright page "Copyright [FOO], sections previously published on Stack Exchange...". However, on the other hand, using sections for critique and improvement purposes is hardly unusual. I think we'd eventually want a lawyerly ruling on this to protect (and reassure) writers and other creators. | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:59 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:52 | comment | added | Pekka | @Neil I just added a line about informing the publisher - it might be a good idea to inform them that portions of the text are available under a CC license, because technically, I guess it could be interpreted as previous publishing. Informing them beforehand could be the safe thing to do in case there's trouble afterwards. Re attributing Stack Overflow, no, not at all. When you publish a book, you go on the right hand side of the infographic, which has nothing to do with SO at all. You remain the owner of the snippet | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:51 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:50 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | That's helpful, but still leaves one question: Say I put one paragraph of my novel in a critique question on Writers, then later publish a book. Do I have to then attribute Stack Overflow in the book? (And, more importantly, would this violate the "not previously published" clause in many writer-publisher contracts?) | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 18:45 | history | answered | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |