Gamer's Lounge Charter Revision: Don't post entire articles or large blocks of text

Wrong. An article made available for free on my website does not relinquish my rights as the author. Now if I post the article and provide a release of my rights to the article (think copyleft), then anyone can copy it based on those rights provided. That is no different than if I write a flash game and distribute it. I can distribute it with the standard rights my country offers, or additional rights on my choosing, or I can simply release it into the wild and say anyone can do anything they want with it. There are plenty of free and legal pieces of software out in the wild that you are free to redistribute based on the rights afforded by the author. Something offered for free from the author/publisher does not automagically give you the right to reproduce it, be it software or poetry or an article about a game you like.

Yea, mayb
e you should read my statement again there.

thats exactly what i was thinking. i must have entered the twilight zone because for the first time ever, Cutie's entire post was intelligent, made sense, and he had a good point.

They're basically arguing that quoting the entire article goes beyond fair use. Quoting small sections, on the other hand, is fine.

Should probably wait a little to see how it pans out still; for now, the rule stands