opereida
Feb 11 2009, 12:38 AM
A fellow PDGA Member and Message Board User has posted one of my PRIVATE MESSAGES sent to him on a public forum. I sent that message for his (David McKibben / Chain_Chinger) eyes only. I contacted the PDGA about the post and they satated that is NOT AGAINST PDGA policy for anyone to post a PM sent to them. I STRONGLY DISAGREE and wanted to know everyone elses opinion? Should they change the rule? I think so!!!!

You can view the posts on the Live Oak Disc Golf Alliance Thread under "I told you so".

the_kid
Feb 11 2009, 12:53 AM
A fellow PDGA Member and Message Board User has posted one of my PRIVATE MESSAGES sent to him on a public forum. I sent that message for his (David McKibben / Chain_Chinger) eyes only. I contacted the PDGA about the post and they satated that is NOT AGAINST PDGA policy for anyone to post a PM sent to them. I STRONGLY DISAGREE and wanted to know everyone elses opinion? Should they change the rule? I think so!!!!

You can view the posts on the Live Oak Disc Golf Alliance Thread under "I told you so".




You probably have to type a disclaimer at the bottom of the pm saying this is confidential.

gnduke
Feb 11 2009, 01:21 AM
Still does not matter. Unless the recipient has signed a non-disclosure agreement and then it is still between the two parties. Anything sent is out of your control once you release it.

The question has been asked on this forum many times over the years, and the same conclusion has always been reached. It is against standard netiquette, but not against any rules on this board.

the_kid
Feb 11 2009, 01:30 AM
Still does not matter. Unless the recipient has signed a non-disclosure agreement and then it is still between the two parties. Anything sent is out of your control once you release it.

The question has been asked on this forum many times over the years, and the same conclusion has always been reached. It is against standard netiquette, but not against any rules on this board.




So are you telling me I could post e-mails between me and the ED? Yeah i bet that would go down well as I would be banned wuthin 24 hours. :D

gnduke
Feb 11 2009, 01:36 AM
Emails and private messages are slightly different, but email contents have been posted here before.

august
Feb 11 2009, 08:57 AM
Whether it's a violation of policy or not, it comes down to an integrity issue. Like other infractions where there is no law prohibiting the action, you just have to take care of those things "privately", as they say in Chicago. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Moderator005
Feb 11 2009, 09:08 AM
The question has been asked on this forum many times over the years, and the same conclusion has always been reached. It is against standard netiquette, but not against any rules on this board.

sandalman
Feb 11 2009, 10:47 AM
matt, i posted an excerpt from an email to me from the ED and got another email from the ED telling me to remove it or else i would face action from the disciplinary committee. the ED claims that the fine print at the bottom of his emails protects him against such revelations. i doubt that there any legal remedy available though. so, please, post away :) i'll take the Over on the 24 hours :)

johnbiscoe
Feb 11 2009, 11:56 AM
classless but legal.

krupicka
Feb 11 2009, 12:06 PM
except for violation of implicit copyright. Courtesy of DCMA, Last_Cash can request that the posted message that he wrote be removed where it was reposted without his permission.

IANAL

Moderator005
Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM
Do you mean the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act)?

I'm no lawyer and have no background in copyright law, but I think message board Private Messages hardly qualify as copyrighted material.

sandalman
Feb 11 2009, 01:07 PM
classless but legal.

i'm not saying the threat of disciplinary committee action was illegal. i agree with you assessment otherwise :)

krupicka
Feb 11 2009, 01:20 PM
Anything you write is automatically copyrighted. Explicit filing with the Copyright Office has not been required for a couple of decades.

Paul Taylor
Feb 11 2009, 01:33 PM
Do you mean the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act)?

I'm no lawyer and have no background in copyright law, but I think message board Private Messages hardly qualify as copyrighted material.



Yes it is copyrighted, with out permission given from the author the email or private message is personnal and copyrighted. An example that we give to the kids here at school in the computer classes that they take is about a court ruling about 3 years ago that went against a major magazine article. In one of their jokes thread they published a joke sent in by a reader. The magazine published the joke and paid the reader for his contribution. Another reader saw the joke and noticed the signature under the joke. Reader #2 sued the magazine and actually won.

The verdict said that the magazine was not cupable of copyright law but that they were reckless in their publications. The verdict also did not say that the magazine had to cease the publications of the jokes, but the verdict did find against the Reader #1 who sent in the joke and he ended up paying Reader #2 the monies he received from the magazine.

In other words the verdict found that emails and personnal messages not published to a "PUBLIC" message board were copyrighted and were not to be reproduced by the second party.

Now that being said, we all do that in that we forward messages from others to others all the time, but I would think that posting it to a message board without the permission of the author, would be illegal. This is what we teach in the computer classes and that is what is taught in Business Law and Literacy of the Law classes here at our school.

DIsc Claimer....I am not a lawyer or a judge, just a simple high school teacher.

CGPRush
Feb 16 2009, 01:43 AM
A fellow PDGA Member and Message Board User has posted one of my PRIVATE MESSAGES sent to him on a public forum. I sent that message for his (David McKibben / Chain_Chinger) eyes only.



I'm surprised the other side hasn't chimed in on this already ...