several pre-sale questions p5 copyright

[george]

1)
if i import info from public fb events, shall i consider copyright ? can i be sued for importing other people fb events ?
i imagine that information belongs to fb

2)
is it possible to add a “submitted by anonymous” or something like this for all imported events ?

3)
do you have an example of disclaimer that i can add to website in order to protect myself of possible legal demands ?

[Barry]

Hi again George!

Some great questions there 🙂

As I’m sure you realize, though, we are not lawyers and it’s not our place to offer you legal advice. If you have doubts or require reliable legal advice, I’d recommend consulting with an expert in your local jurisdiction.

With that said, we do know that many users actively import events from Facebook and it is also something that Facebook explicitly enables via their API.

is it possible to add a “submitted by anonymous” or something like this for all imported events ?

Hmm, no options or settings exist to help with this and so it would require some amount of custom coding to make this happen. Certainly possibly if you’re willing to invest a little time from a developer/designer into the task, though.

do you have an example of disclaimer that i can add to website in order to protect myself of possible legal demands ?

I am afraid we do not. This is something you’d need to research for yourself and might be something where you should seek appropriate legal advice if it is a concern for you.

I hope that at least gives you a little direction and if there is anything else I might be able to help with please do let me know!

[george]

it is pretty clear what you answer.

– events that have been imported via facebook can be easily differentiated from manually added events (in order to add custom code later )?

– maybe they will have some special tag or special category name ?

[Barry]

For sure 🙂

It’s possible to define a default category that all events imported from Facebook will be assigned to.

theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/event-aggregator-import-settings

[george]

when an event is added via facebook import, is there a place where a person name who added event is stored ?

[Barry]

If the event is associated with an organizer on Facebook, that is also imported. Is that what you mean?

If on the other hand you mean is the ID of the user who sets up the import retained/associated with each imported event, the answer is no.

Remember that you can try our plugins and, if unsatisfied, we’ll give you a refund so long as you ask for one in the first 30 days.

It looks like you’ve been asking a lot of pre-sales questions: perhaps that would give you a more complete experience, risk free?

[george]

it was second option – about a person who “added” event to interface.

so if i admin add an event via BackOffice, or a user submit event from COMMUNITY EVENTS plugin, there is nothing that would differentiate those events

a) neither in backoffice view
b) nor in the front view

?

[Barry]

Hi George,

In our current release that sort of notice isn’t present by default, though we may restore it in future.

With that said, if you require submitters to log in before they can contribute events then they will be listed as the author, which is a piece of information that can readily be exposed in the admin event editor and list.

Thanks!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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