I'd say an implied license. People are sending them in with the expectation
that they'll be posted.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]>wrote:

> I started scraping PostSecret<https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postsecret/>.
> This is making me wonder whether PostSecret is at all legal.
>
> The creators of the postcards own copyright on their postcards right after
> they make them.
>
> What allows Frank to post them? Does the anonymity have anything to do with
> it?
>
> And is my copying them from his site any different from his copying them to
> his site?
>
> Tom
>
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