PeterHB wrote:daal wrote:Certainly it's no problem to copy these reviews
The individual authors on L19 own the copyright to their reviews by default, because the site didn't have a different policy when it was setup. So I'm not confident it's no problem to copy these reviews. I think the reviewers need to give an indication they are okay with copying their work, as SL has an
Open Content License.I don't think anyone would object in reality, but we have do the right thing, even though its a pain.
I think SL does a good job of books list/reviews and its the correct place to put those. A review is not a discussion, its a review.
Now I know that some review are posted here, and the some discussions develop about those reviews or the books themselves. But I think the best solution, rather than copy or move it to SL (or vice versa) - is to just add the links to relevant L19 threads/posts to the SL list, so people who want to read more about a book, different views and such, can have the info handy.
I would also say that if there is a need of an index page of book reviews, as daal did here (and as others did for other subjects) - a much better place for such lists is either on SL or just create a dedicated site/page (possibly within the L19 family, accessible from the L19 home page and outside the forums.) Conceptually, a forum is for discussions which are organized into threads and posts, not for indexing. Even if a forum offers some (very poor, imho) functionality for some indexing.
The bottom line is: there is no need the various *mature* services we have cannot work together, and even overlap to a certain extend. It is certainly better than trying to either duplicate content or fracture it.
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I think it might even be a good idea to create a 'index repository' site - with pages of go-indexes for various topics. The indexes can unify all the various Go sites and blogs giving people a way to quickly access all the content related to a particular topic. Sort-of like an aggregator, but for links only. Just an idea...