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Originally posted by Unicorn:
Well, I think all of us are amateurs. I don't consider none of my reviews as a professional work either. But the fact, the goddess praised them, makes me confident enough to give it a shot.
I don't like putting amateur reviews on a commercial site...
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Huh? Could you be more specific about that? I thought, writing a review would be within the bounds of the freedom of telling ones own opinion. If you could tell me, where I am going to run into the danger of violating copyrights, I would highly appreciate that (or were you quoting someone else in your reviews without asking for permission? That would be a understandable reason...)
(or does posting the review in the group give them the copyright of your work?)
Many copyrights problems. First, pictures. It's illegal to put pictures of the game in your review, without authorization from the copyright holders. Now, when it's done for a review (and you only use
some pictures and not offer them all to download, of course; and you give appropriate credits, of course, and tell they're posted without the copyrights holder authorization) on a private homepage, it can be under the fair use rule (though the copyrights holder may ask you to take them down; but they usually don't since it acts as free ad. for them after all). Posted on a commercial homapage is another matter...
As for quoting, it's the same thing. A
quote in a fan review falls under the fair use rule. Posted on a commercial site, even if made by a fan and not the company's worker... I don't know.
At last, yes, when you put any of your work on a commercial site (that way), you can lose your copyright to that work. It depends on the legal stance of the site for your posting. For instance, the site may declare it owns all rights to anything it hosts. Then, it can be held responsible for everything is written in the reviews, but, at the same time, you lost your copyrights on your work (and, yes, it happened to me: I once posted on a private ML some works [some RPG rules], then learn that, by default, since it was a private ML, the law gives ownership to the owner of the ML to everything that is posted in the ML [except if, of course, I took the appropriate steps to ensure my ownership of my own work...])
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Are you aware, the whole world might view the contents of the yahoo-group as well?
It's just not the same. The Yahoo! ML is a private ML with open membership while PP's board is a company's board. See the difference? In other words, the ML members are still a small number of people (it
is a
club after all), while the PP board's reader are all of their customers. It's not just the same...
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If that's your unchangeable opinion, it can't be helped. I'm going to read them (including the mentioned one about "Toraha") there in that case...
Thanks for reading... though they're not high quality reviews (and there are only 3 of them so far... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img])