Sysop Prerogative
Sysop prerogative is a legal concept used to understand what powers a systems operator has and which they do not. It states that a sysop has the prerogative to make any rules they choose providing they have not given the right to do so by contract and that legislation in the country they are in permits and does not prohibit the rule they want to make. Under sysop prerogative, if a term in the website's rules says that the copyright in the posted content belongs to the poster, then the systems operator cannot then make it their copyright without the user agreeing first, under contract law.
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