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  • 16-08-2014 12:54pm
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    Kess73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all

    With the new season starting today we feel it best to remind folks about what can and cannot be put in the forum due to copyright.


    Articles from blogs, newpapers, magazines etc cannot be put up in full in the soccer forum. You can provide a link to the article and put up the opening paragraph of the article..


    Match streams are not allowed in the forum, as is the requesting for match streams in the open forum or via PM. Some time back the site received an edict stating that we can no longer permit match stream or match stream requests (even via the PM system). There is some flexibility when it comes to letting another poster know that a club has a pay per view system on the offical club site, but a good rule of thimb would be to not post or mention a link if you are unsure if it is against site rules.


    Youtube at present is fine as Youtube has revenue sharing arrangements in place with copyright holders and as such polices it's own content.

    Most will remember the changes that came in around the time of the below link.


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056565895


    Now to something that will be kicking in from this season.


    Gifs, Vines etc of goals, and match incidents are no longer allowed. The EPL are clamping down on this are are monitoring high volume websites for anything that breaches copyright. This means that no gifs/Vines etc taken from in play games, and it means the same for any old footage from EPL games in gif or Vine form.

    We, the mod team, will be trying to apply a common sense approach to the new changes for as long as we can. By that I mean we will not be looking to go in card heavy whilst posters get used to the changes, but we will be carding people who decide to ignore repeated requests to not post gifs/Vines etc of copyrighted material.


    Any changes or additions will be added to this thread over time.


    Thanks to all in advance for helping with the above .


    The Mod team.


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  • #2
    Kess73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    As everyone may not read the feedback forum, here is the most recent update from Dav as to where things stand with regards the use of Vine.

    We would like to thank everyone in the forum for their cooperation and patience, and we will continue to put any updates or changes into this thread so that forum users can be aware as to where things stand




    OK folks, we've been discussing this and we have a decision.

    The site allows for material from third parties such as Youtube, Vine, Instagram and Soundcloud to be embedded in its pages. While we obviously have no control over the material that is hosted on third party platforms, we will remove any links to material that infringes copyright as soon as we are alerted to its presence. In the specific case of the English Premier League, we know that they are now actively seeking out people who infringe their copyright so we must now ask you all to stop posting it on the site and further more, we would ask that if you see this sort of content (linked or embedded), please report it. If you want to post a link to a site that has this sort of content, that's ok because simply put, that's between the copyright holder and the other site.

    I don't know how other organisations plan on dealing with this issue or if they're proactively going after services like Vine or YouTube who have clips of key incidents in a game - be that a goal in soccer or a high tackle in rugby or a safe call at home plate in baseball. Some organisations and teams understand that sharing of these things are simply the means that a modern sports fan follows their game and team of choice and they don't see it as anything other than "fair use" (which there is still no provision for in Irish law by the way).

    I would have thought that any organisation with a lick of common sense would simply offer an official channel for sharing their news and events via social media (and should an official FA or Sky account start sharing this sort of content for the Premiership etc, then that would be more than ok to link or embed). So before the cries of "what about this sport or that league?" I would simply ask that if they're on record as saying they don't want people sharing these things, we must include them in this ban too.

    I'm sorry folks, as I said above, I know it's messy and that no one who posts these sorts of things has any intention to damage or ignore the rights of any copyright holder - they just wanna be fans and talk about that goal or that penalty decision etc.

    To any copyrights holders who wish to get in touch directly with us to discuss these things, please do, we would love to hear from you and will be more than happy to work with you: http://www.boards.ie/contact

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    Dav
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=91804725&postcount=17


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