Who owns the copyright to the content a Jelly writes here?

Here are the Terms and Conditions. Most of it is useless legal-speak trying to prevent potential lawsuits, but the important part is:

“Any content posted on this site may be used by Fluther for any purpose.

You may redistribute, reproduce and/or display any posted content on this site, provided:
– You prominently mention Fluther.
– You attribute the original author (unless they are anonymous) as they are listed on Fluther.”

@PhiNotPi Cool. So if it’s ones own writing, they are free to use it so long as they cite Fluther as the original publisher. That’s very fair. Thanks.

I do.

Sorry, I’m busy trying to figure out if this is the SFW or NSFW question.

@filmfann you do understand it is NOT Friday! Right?

@Tropical_Willie It’s never going to be TGIF Friday for me here again. Somebody else will have to bear that burden, or it won’t get done.

Hopefully we won’t be seeing our Fluther quotes in any book.

what is tgif?

Thank God It’s Friday.

@jca As I understand the terms of the copyright, no other Jelly would have any right to use your writing without permission.

@ETpro Is it really a crime to write something like: “A jelly here once said that____”?

@Mimishu1995 Not if it’s attributed, and is a short quote. That comes under the Fair Use Act. If you are writing something for publication and not just for your own internal records, it’s a good idea to acquaint yourself with the Fair Use rules, and don’t push the envelope. If there is any doubt, contact the copyright holder/s and seek permission. They may ask for licensing fees. If so, decide whether it’s important enough to pay to use their content verbatim, or if you’d just rather reword it into your own words, and perhaps say “Here’s what I think Mr_X says about that.”