• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Who likes photos of projects & workshops?

AJB Temple said:
I would probably say clearly somewhere something like: "the owner of this website asserts and retains all rights to intellectual property, images, designs, inventions and copyright and they must not be copied or appropriated without prior written consent from the owner of this website". And where you have a copyright symbol add something like "IP rights asserted". This is not legal advice - it is just a protect yourself suggestion in case you invent the next biro without realising.
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Jeepers. Do you think I could put that long sentence at the bottom of the sidebar instead of in the main body? That's a lot of text to add anywhere prominent.

I'm honestly not convinced of the benefit of the "IP rights asserted" thing (although happy to be argued with ;) ). If I wanted to point to something that (I think) was genuinely inventive on my website (just as an example) it would be the automatic vacuum cleaner starter thing. As I understand it, there are a few options for IP protection:
  1. Copyright - this stops (at least in theory) anyone from directly copying a design (although in the case of the design vacuum cleaner starter, I give away complete design instructions including microcontroller source code, so I'd be on shaky ground for that aspect) or the photos / text from the webpage.
  2. Design registration - if I registered the design then I could argue that someone copied the stylistic aspects (but there aren't any in much that I do and I'd have to register it anyway so this one's a bit pointless)
  3. Patent. This is by far the best (and most expensive) option for protecting IP, but the moment I publish any info about it on the website (before publishing a patent), I can no longer get a patent as there's disclosed information. At work they are very, very careful not to tell anyone anything that might endanger the chances of getting a patent. If I wanted a patent, then applying for it before putting it on the website would be essential; at that point I could review whether extra blurb ("Patent Pending" or whatever) was needed.
That's just my interpretation of course but the general sense I have is that publishing stuff on a website basically ditches any useful protection (apart from copyright) of the stuff you put on the website.

That's not to say that I shouldn't put the general comment ("the owner of the website asserts...") you suggested above onto the page somewhere, it just means that if I invent the next biro without realising it, then the moment it's on my website there's nothing stopping anyone creating something comprising the same underlying invention as long as they don't directly copy my design. That makes me doubt whether "IP rights asserted" adds very much considering how much it would clutter up the bottom of the page.

Please do disagree if you know more about this than I do: my knowledge is extremely limited on such matters...

AJB Temple said:
It's looking better Al and working better. Top man. Admirable work ethic. (y)
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Thanks Adrian
 
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I agree - I was suggesting something that dissuades people from blatantly pinching your web material in most cases.
We went through the whole patent malarky with No 1 offspring who invented a lubrication device for military aircraft a couple of years ago then realised it had commercial applications as well. Twas indeed expensive.
 
AndyP said:
On the home page the hyperlinks work on both the image and the description.
On the project page the hyperlinks work only on the image and not on the description.
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That should be fixed now (on the titles, not the descriptions).

I've also added the ability to filter the project page by those that have detailed "build logs".

The project overview should load a lot quicker now - it was pulling the images from the project pages (which are circa 1024×768 pixels) and then the browser scaled them down for the overview thumbnails but it seems more sensible for the overview page to just load smaller thumbnails to save network usage.

On the projects overview I've also added the category/ies that each page is in (mainly so that, for example, it's slightly more obvious that the "Quick Change Tool Post Mk 2" is for the mini-lathe):

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I've also amended the copyright notice at the bottom of the content to include "All rights reserved" as that the seems to be the expected terminology and (apparently) serves as a bit of a "cover all". Hopefully that is sufficient.
 
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