# Tuba Diva - question about the rules

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486 "2007-06-26T16:34:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486/1 "2007-06-26T16:34:02Z")

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I PM’d you a question about the possibility of borrowing the wording of your rules on copyright issues and illegal activities for a board I administer. I imagine you get way too many PM’s to have noticed so I will just ask directly out here in the open.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486/2 "2007-06-26T16:58:50Z")

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Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I answered you already. Memory, it’s the second thing that goes.

Ed says you’re welcome to base your rules on our rules if you like, glad we could help you.

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> You can give permission to anybody that sounds legitimate. If they want to give credit, that’s fine, although it’d probably look a little strange in the body of a registration agreement. If they have an acknowledgements or “about us” section, they could maybe stick something in there. -Ed

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486/3 "2007-06-26T17:06:01Z")

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[QUOTE=TubaDiva]  
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I answered you already. Memory, it’s the second thing that goes.

Ed says you’re welcome to base your rules on our rules if you like, glad we could help you.  
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Thanks, it’s mostly that one section that we need to expand on for our rules and your’s was so perfect I didn’t really want to have to rewrite it all. I may just shorten it a little for our purposes.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-diva-question-about-the-rules/409486/4 "2007-06-26T20:34:38Z")

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