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On forums such as Stack Exchange, is it okay to &quot;plagiarize&quot; myself across other forums and vice versa?
<p>Sometimes when I've had questions, I've simultaneously asked them on other forums as well. For example, I may ask a question on christianforums.com, copy the same question, and paste it on hermenutics.stackexchange.com to get more perspectives, and vice versa. Also, I may copy an old answer I've given on one of the forums and then used it to answer a similar question from the other.</p>
<p>So long as I'm the creator of a question or answer on a forum, am I generally allowed to copy and paste what I've written and use it across forums, or do most sites consider themselves the &quot;owners&quot; of what I post, forbidding me from copying and pasting what I wrote elsewhere?</p>

<p>See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service">https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service</a> and <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/help/licensing">https://law.stackexchange.com/help/licensing</a>.</p>
<p>As with most social media sites, your contribution of content does not transfer ownership of any copyright in the content; rather, you grant to the platform a non-exclusive license.  Because the license is not exclusive, you can grant similar or different licenses to other parties, which generally happens when you post the same content on other sites.</p>
<p>(Of course, you can only grant licenses when you own the copyright or have a license that allows you to grant a further license, so posting content created by others can be complicated; this seems to be beyond the scope of the question, though, so I mention it only in passing.)</p>
<p>To answer with respect to a specific site, of course, you have to look at the site's terms of service.</p>
