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    Default Re: Content Posted on a Public Forum

    What were the terms of service when this member registered for the forum in question?

    Look at the TOS for this forum:

    By posting content or making content available for inclusion on the ExpertLaw forums, including without limitation threads and comments you post to the forum, you grant ExpertLaw and its proprietors a world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, non-exclusive, fully sub-licensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display, and to incorporate such content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
    In other words, "once you post it here, it belongs to us". That should have already been in the TOS. If it wasn't, you may still have difficulties with the host.

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    Default Re: Content Posted on a Public Forum

    The agreement reads as follows. The bolded part is what seemed most similar to the TOS for this forum.

    By accessing “Clan” (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Clan”, “url”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use “Clan”. We may change these at any time and we’ll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of “Clan” after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.

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