Chunguo wrote:

Okay, a couple of points:

1. I'm not going to write the license you want. Creative Commons attribution would give you all those rights, without giving you ownership. I'm thinking of Chet and his 'the OMM forums will always be here'. Legally it's a terrible idea to assume things will stay the way they are.

2. Chet's position on copyright sounds (and I'm not a US lawyer, so this is subject to further research) more like him being a cunt. Has someone threatened to sue him? How about if he burnt the forums onto a CDROM and deleted it from his own hard drive, so he was transferring rather than copying? And who would sue? How could you assert ownership/authorship from a nick? Also, wouldn't the DMCA notice/takedown provisions protect you? That is, if someone says 'remove my postings you whore' you could (presumably) do it, yes? If so you're protected by s512 of the DMCA. How did he put it across to you?

I'll do some research and get back to you, but with (1), the CC license would give you what you want - unlimited use subject only to attribution. With (2), if Chet wants to be a cunt we can't really stop him. Sigh.