Username Ownership

A point made in the "Defamation from Online Posts" thread got me thinking about this question. Who does own the usernames on Boards.ie?

Does the site retain control and ownership or does the individual? If the site retains ownership does that mean that anything produced under that username is also the property of Boards.ie or does the content of the posts/user generated photos etc remain the property of the User themselves.

johnfás

Did you not read the terms you signed up for?

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johnfás

johnfás wrote: »

Did you not read the terms you signed up for?

No.