G’day crew.

Demonland received a call today from Sportal, the group responsible for articles produced on AFL.com.au as well as other sport sites. (see www.sportal.com.au).

The call was to advise Demonland, that in 2006, Sportal will be taking a heavy hand approach to Fan Sites who allow their members to publish Sportal articles in full. Sportal will target the Members of the site especially, in line with their Copyright rights.

I’ve taken this next snippet from their Sportal terms and conditions:

“INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE CONTENT OF THE SITE.

Sportal Content

All material on the site is owned by Sportal, or (as warranted) by its licensors, and is protected by intellectual property laws. You may not copy, modify, reproduce, republish, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from this site including the underlying code and software, save as authorised by this agreement. Sportal reserves the right to sue for breach of its intellectual property rights.

You are only authorised to use the site and its contents for your personal, non–commercial use. This amounts to viewing the site and printing off individual pages or sections for personal use. You may not use any part of the material on this site to establish, maintain or aid in the establishment or maintenance of your own publications, Internet or other.”

From now on, please only have the article’s link in your post. You can paste a few lines of the story, but you are not permitted to copy the entire story. If you're unsure how to create a link for the article, please don't hesitate to drop a PM to any of the Mods.

Demonland Admin and Mods will work with you to ensure this rule is followed. If, however, members continue to disregard Demonland Code of Conduct and Sportal’s demand, we will first issue warnings before issuing a suspension.

Sportal will prosecute hard, and that’s going to cost members $, so pay close attention to the articles you intend to paste on Demonland.

Thanks.

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I'm pinning this back up for a while, a few members seem to have forgotten the rules.

I'm pinning this back up for a while, a few members seem to have forgotten the rules.

sportal are only good for union live scores, they had one afl game as live at 1am....

sportal are only good for union live scores, they had one afl game as live at 1am....

I am at a loss to see the "commercial" use of material when it is on a "free" fan site.

i am assuming that sportal publish the material and they want the links to their sites so that people visit and see their sponsors ads...thats fair enough too, they have to make money somehow. i cant see a prob with posting the key lines of an article that are relavent to our discussion and posting a hyper link so that you can follow it up if you want to...

i am assuming that sportal publish the material and they want the links to their sites so that people visit and see their sponsors ads...thats fair enough too, they have to make money somehow. i cant see a prob with posting the key lines of an article that are relavent to our discussion and posting a hyper link so that you can follow it up if you want to...

I for one will no longer visit a site that employs heavy handed tactics. Bye bye sportal.