neat project! the collective writing process seems intimidating to me, although i've always secretly wanted to dabble in fiction writing.
> "I'm keeping the site private for now because I can't be bothered to see a lawyer and get my legal policies/checkboxes in place..."
not to belittle what you've built, but i really lament how much legal considerations overhang our collective psyches, especially on the internet, and how much we believe in legalese and lawyers to protect us from potential issues. both the risks and the protections are unduly outsized in our minds.
by default, we each own the copyrights to our own words. posting our words on websites should implicitly give those websites permission to display (perform) those words (or not). we shouldn't need pages of jargon to spell that out, and no amount of expensive precognition is going to ward off even most potential misconstruals (malicious or not).
I agree... 20 years ago I had no qualms about putting the site out. But now even aside from IP policy, there's privacy policies, child policies, GDPR... and I'm not sure if there are shelves below which I don't have to worry about that stuff. At some point soon I'll find a lawyer that can help me figure that out, because I would definitely like to just have the site out there for people to visit even if I'm not going to market the heck out of it.
> "I'm keeping the site private for now because I can't be bothered to see a lawyer and get my legal policies/checkboxes in place..."
not to belittle what you've built, but i really lament how much legal considerations overhang our collective psyches, especially on the internet, and how much we believe in legalese and lawyers to protect us from potential issues. both the risks and the protections are unduly outsized in our minds.
by default, we each own the copyrights to our own words. posting our words on websites should implicitly give those websites permission to display (perform) those words (or not). we shouldn't need pages of jargon to spell that out, and no amount of expensive precognition is going to ward off even most potential misconstruals (malicious or not).