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Daily Mail posting chunks of threads online- has this been agreed with MNHQ?

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PleaseMissPlease · 03/08/2016 10:41

Can we have some clarification from MNHQ please on the legality of the Mail plundering MN and quoting posters? Is the Mail allowed to do this and are MN in agreement with it? Just asking as a thread from Chat has been lifted and is in the Mail with quotes from various posters.

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ImperialBlether · 15/08/2016 13:25

What gets me in those articles is the way the 'journalist' patiently explains it all, despite showing screenshots of everything. It's almost as though they think DM readers are too stupid to understand it the first time.

usual · 15/08/2016 13:22

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cozietoesie · 15/08/2016 13:20

I suspect that there's already a loose 'understanding' which has been 'chatted through'. There are plenty of threads - real sensitive ones - which could be lifted or part lifted by a journalist which aren't. Wink

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 15/08/2016 12:34

Just bumping this as it happened again today DM link

The MN thread is here

It's really, really fucking annoying. Surely there's something MNHQ can do?

BeJayKayven · 03/08/2016 11:17

Finan

BeJayKayven · 03/08/2016 11:16

I saw that this morning.
Lazy lazy lazy way to fill the paper inches.
Victoria Filan the so called journalist 🙄 wow what an easy job she has

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PleaseMissPlease · 03/08/2016 11:00

It's more complicated than that. MNHQ own all of the site. If the Mail lifts copy from the site then they are in breach of copyright of the site, although all the posters still own their posts . This is all set out in the T&Cs link which is under the Privacy settings on your account details here.

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bananapeanut · 03/08/2016 10:47

It's legal - this is a public forum

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