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MOD POST: Entries Now Default to Public

Mar 08, 2009 01:06

As mentioned earlier, entries posted to this community will now default to being publicly visible unless you set the privacy option to "Members" while posting. This does not prevent anyone from posting members-only entries, it just changes the default ( Read more... )

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tommytesto March 8 2009, 01:15:45 UTC

Did you take care of that new setting, which (as I understand it) allows posts to be reproduced elsewhere?

auntysarah March 8 2009, 01:27:08 UTC

I'm not familiar with the issue you refer to here. Do you have more information?

gymx March 8 2009, 02:20:29 UTC

They implemented a new feature where you can opt to put a copyright "c" on posts in the hopes that passersby will respect the mark and not crosspost the copyrighted material elsewhere. It seems pointless to me, b/c in my understanding original words are implicitly copyrighted and sharing permission is invoked with placement of a Creative Commons mark. So I'm not sure what their aim is here, unless it's to prevent people such as Dirt from skirting copyright laws.

More info: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=292&q=copyright&lang=

soph March 8 2009, 02:24:49 UTC

As that FAQ states, that's only applicable to accounts that are using Cyrillic services.

gymx March 8 2009, 02:25:49 UTC

See my comment right below.

tommytesto March 8 2009, 02:44:39 UTC

Bingo - that's it. But I have never used cyrillic. I just got it when doing a post in English, with no odd characters.

gymx March 8 2009, 02:46:38 UTC

Yup, I double checked my settings for Cyrillic services and they were off. Seems to be a bug on LJ's part.

gymx March 8 2009, 02:25:37 UTC

Okay, so after noticing the FAQ entry said this applied only to Cyrillic services users, I poked around and was unable to find where I could change this option in my journal settings. However, I got a pop-up asking me to opt in/out of this feature when I logged in this morning, but I just checked and I have not enabled Cyrillic services. In conclusion...you might want to email LJ and ask what the hell is going on.

amokk March 8 2009, 01:31:02 UTC

Are you referring to the RSS feed that all journals have?

auntysarah March 8 2009, 01:39:38 UTC

I wondered that, but that's not a new feature - it's been there since ... like forever.

amokk March 8 2009, 01:41:50 UTC

Yeah, I was waiting to see if that was the reference, to say it's not new, and probably isn't what they think it is.

tommytesto March 8 2009, 02:42:58 UTC

No - there was something I had to check the other day when I was making a public post to a comm, about whether I wanted it to be able to be reproduced elsewhere (automatically, I guess). It was a new thing to me. I am not the most tech savvy person, but I would suspect it'd be seen by anyone posting.

amokk March 8 2009, 02:59:16 UTC

Yeah, I just tried a public post to a community and there wasn't anything about it.

But, reading the faq about it, it's not about allowing the post to be reproduced elsewhere, it's about adding copyright notice so other people won't (hopefully) reproduce it.

Copyright notices aren't required under US copyright law any longer, all text you write is automatically copyrighted to the author. So it's some weird Russian thing, I'm guessing.

auntysarah March 8 2009, 03:03:34 UTC

OK, this doesn't sound like it's anything that requires moderator action.

Anyone can, of course, add the © symbol to anything they write, if they so-desire. ;-)

amokk March 8 2009, 04:10:40 UTC

found it tommytesto March 8 2009, 02:45:20 UTC

see gymx's comments, above.

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