Been removed from a blog and my content on it

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 7, 2013 at 2:39 pm

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  Hi there,
  basically, I worked on a blog and the owner added me as an administrator and said I can own the blog. A couple of months later, after I had put ALL my content on it, the owner decided to remove me, and is still refusing to remove my content from it. The blog URL is theslimeygang.wordpress.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm

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  You still own the copyright to your own work unless you assigned them to the blog formally – you can file a DMCA notice and have the content removed – the process is a bit formal,

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

  Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice (retired)

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 7, 2013 at 4:23 pm

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  I don’t want to really do anything serious, because we used to be good friends. Is there a way you can get one of your team members to remove the content or contact the website owner?

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 9:25 am

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  The content on the blog is only on that blog. When I put the content on the blog, I didn’t put it on any other blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 10:41 am

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  No, staff will not intervene and force a blogger to take something down unless they are legally compelled to, like by a DMCA.

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 1:31 pm

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  So my content is stuck on the blog? It’s just because all my old emails are on the website and the owner Is refusing to remove them.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 1:32 pm

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  No. Your content is stuck on the blog until you file a DMCA report with wordpress.com, as auxclass told you above. Your move.

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 1:35 pm

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  The owner of the blog says he’s forgotten his WP password so he can’t log in.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 1:48 pm

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  That does not matter at all. He can recover the account by logging in and clicking “forgot my password.”

  Besides, those links connect you with WordPress.com staff. They will remove the material for you IF and only IF you file a DMCA. He doesn’t need to log in at all.

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 1:59 pm

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  I just told the owner that via Twitter, and he said he doesn’t remember his email password even if he reset his WP password.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 2:02 pm

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  So what? File a DMCA and staff will take the stuff down. He is not necessary.

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 2:09 pm

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  There’s just one problem. How can I claim it’s “my copyright” because it is only on that blog and not on MY OWN blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 2:10 pm

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  Look, either file the report or not.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 2:48 pm

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  You ask the staff above to remove content just based on your word in a forum – the staff need the legal framework of the DMCA to legally remove the content in question

  Otherwise is to prevent @RC or myself asking to have all the content removed from YOUR blog because we claimed joint authorship and that YOU stole our content – if you blog was emptied just on that I suspect you would be back in the forum a bit upset –

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  hf556 · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 2:50 pm

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  Wait, why are you saying your having the content removed from my blog? What did I do?