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  dinovuk · Member · Oct 24, 2012 at 5:14 pm

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  I am about to start writing a short story blog, i truly believe in my idea and i think i might (after generating site views) sell movie rights or make a book using the context on my blog. Now my question is, do i give up my rights if i write it on WordPress? I mean, say Universal visits my blog and sees that a lot of people like it and that i’m a good writer. They then want to make a movie out of it. Does WordPress get a cut from the money? How does it work?
  Blog url: http://cityofriot.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 24, 2012 at 5:21 pm

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  You automatically hold copyright to any and all intellectual property you create online or offline. See:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm

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  then want to make a movie out of it. Does WordPress get a cut from the money? How does it work?

  No – in the Terms of Service you grant WordPress.COM the right to display your material (else you would have an empty blog) – when you take your material off your WordPress.COM blog all rights that WordPress.COM have go away – they retain no rights to your work – yes the TOS and such is very dull to read but every blogger should read them at least once in their blogging career