[Moderation split] Spontaneous Wakeful Out of Body Experience (OBE)

[Laird]

[I've split these moderation posts out of the original Spontaneous Wakeful Out of Body Experience (OBE) thread so as not to clutter and derail it.]

@Max_B, please let us know next time when you're sharing content that's not your own, along with a reference so folk know where it's from and how to find the original. It's not clear that the OP meets our Guidelines for reproducing external content. Please check and let us know.

[Laird]

Much appreciated, @Typoz. I had attempted to search too after @Max_B affirmed he'd found it online, but turned up nothing.

Given that copyright content has been reproduced in full, apparently without consent, it does seem to violate our guidelines. Max, please bring it into compliance or indicate how it does comply.

I have no problem posting this in full, it's a few lines, the copyright is with the author, not the site, and the author clearly wanted to publish their story non commercially for people to read, and neither my post, nor PSIQ is seeking to make money out of it either, even indirectly... I posted it to discuss it...

I thought you had taken advantage of the safe haven provisions of the DMA? In which case you shouldn't be policing copyright, if you police copyright, you are undermining the safe haven provisions. Indeed by raising the issue... you are undermining the very protection it is supposed to afford...

[Laird]

I have no problem posting this in full

That's irrelevant. It's not up to you.

it's a few lines

It's a full reproduction of somebody else's content. That's a clear violation of our guidelines.

the copyright is with the author, not the site

Per the link I referenced, the copyright is held jointly "between Dr. Long (as copyrighted 1999) and the experiencer".

and the author clearly wanted to publish their story non commercially for people to read, and neither my post, nor PSIQ is seeking to make money out of it either, even indirectly...

Irrelevant again, because it nevertheless violates our guidelines. If you wish to contest the guidelines themselves, then do so in the appropriate place.

I posted it to discuss it...

That doesn't require it to be reproduced in full.

I thought you had taken advantage of the safe haven provisions of the DMA?

We silently dropped that. They required us to provide and publicise a mailing address that was not permitted to be a PO box, and none of us was any longer willing to make any of our private residential addresses public.

We didn't say anything at the time because we didn't want to draw attention to our unprotected status.

In any case, since you're indicating an unwillingness to bring the post into compliance, I've done that for you.