h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lil just told me the rules you see
Now I’ unhappy to be
Posting poems on this site
Means I lose them without a fight
I am pained to say
I don’t know which way to go
This is my last entery
If you want more email me


My address is [email protected]

or I guess [email protected]

Lose them without a fight to who?

the BBC I lost my poems to small print

I'm starting a recovery program in the morning...

and then I will start up a mailing list but you all have to email one of those addresses to be put on and have it in the subject

"I wanna have poems"

I guess Cat you wont be signing up then

Remember Rob's diagram?

<-- The point















<--- Cat


*whoosh* Can you run that by me again?

Because I posted my poems here H2g2 owns that form of the poem by some clause in the small print

so I ahve to make changes to make them mine...

I'm going to send my poems via emails to them that want

you will have to subscribe to a mailing list that I will set up

Ahhhh... all becomes clear.

yeah... so do you want to subscribe or not?

Yeah, put me on it.

Hello there!

Now, I'm not a lawyer, but ...

>>Because I posted my poems here H2G2 owns that form of the poem by some clause in the small print<<

Not quite - the BBC does become entitled to use anything you post here without necessarily seeking your permission (though I imagine they would, because it would be very rude not to). That's not the same thing as them 'owning' your poems, whether in the form you posted or any other. The clause is there more to protect *them* from being sued by disgruntled researchers than it is to claim sole right to your stuff.

If you wrote an entry and especially if it got into the edited guide, then you would have to ask permission in order to publish it somewhere else. They might grant permission and they might not.

Now, technically, that probably does apply to *anything* you post here - but the idea, that if you got a poem into a magazine, the BBC would then sue you, is mind-bogglingly unlikely, especially if you're just posting them in the way you are (if the BBC were to publish them in one of their print magazines or something, then maybe, but not just submitted like this). It's even more unlikely that a court would see it that way (have you signed anything?) The author always retains some rights, no matter what the small-print says.

As I say, I'm not a lawyer - but if I were you, I'd take a more relaxed attitude to this

(Just hate to see anyone think about signing out of here because of something 'fiddly' like this)

my I really am sure I don't know what to do...

I don't intend on leaving the site... I didn't even join it to write poetry but to Roleplay...

I think I will go see an italic later today

thanks for making me feel a little more at ease trin

Oh 'eck!!

whats the matter Lil

oh and trin does this mean you like my poetry

Lil ol' me causing trouble again

Hi Khamsin!!! (What's all the buzz?)

Lampie *faints*

*8wakes up*

been writing poems... seems like I'm not the only ex chemistry student that has changed to English though I'm not studying it

How are you anyways?

Lampie *faints*

*8wakes up*

been writing poems... seems like I'm not the only ex chemistry student that has changed to English though I'm not studying it

How are you anyways?

I'm alright, Kham.
I've just been horribly un-lampie-ish of late.
I've done a few things that a lampost like myself should shudder at the thought of.
*sigh*
But, I recieved a lot of ice cream for my troubles.
Bits of news:
-My brother's getting married on Sept 1st!
-I'm thinking of switching my major...AGIAN!
-I'm sleepy.
Tell me about you now!

'I've done a few things that a lampost like myself should shudder at the thought of.' (Like ending that sentence with a preposition!)

(Like making lots of sentence fragments!)