Originally Posted by Liggio
I'd like to know how using photos of mobsters that were snapped by the FBI or taken by friends and family is considered "creating" content, what exactly did you create? You didn't take the pictures yourselves. And then you claim ownership of them through copyright. Or how about using information that's a mix of old newspaper clippings and Wikipedia? I'm not saying there's anything wrong it, it's just when you claim it as you're own, charge people to read it, and say that no one else can post it is a bit strange. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with charging people in and of itself, it's supposed to be a free market do as you wish if people are willing to pay. But saying it's all yours and yours only is ridiculous. Just trying to understand you here, let's keep it classy I'm not trying to start a big fight I'd just like to know where your audacity comes from.



We don't use Wiki. And also, you continue to talk about pictures. We didn't claim copyright on any pictures. But what you did in your Gaspare DiGregorio "post," you also took about half of our article word for word added some other stuff from Wiki and then just posted it - without citing your source as you claimed you would.

You can't post our material. Period. Without our written approval as stated on our policies page. It is protected not only by international DMCA copyright laws but also by the U.S. Copyright Office since we have filed copyrights and paid the appropriate fees to do so - all past, present, and future content on our site that is researched and written by either of us.

You want to take Wiki and use their stuff, be my guest. I could care less.

In addition, you don't understand what intellectual property is. People who write books and do research using a variety of sources like FBI files, newspaper articles - it's research. What they do with that research is something completely different. Once they craft it to their own material - it becomes intellectual property. That is what the "content" part of this is.

I don't understand exactly what your issue is and why you want to continue using our site? There are plenty of other sites out there.

Last edited by MafiaStudent; 04/22/22 02:06 PM.