Copyright of Comments
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If I make a comment on a WordPress blog, does the owner of that blog own the copyright to what I have written, or do I own the copyright for having written it?
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Copyright law gives broad protection to content creators, and a comment is “content” created by you.
You own the copyright to the comment unless the blog owner has specifically stated in their policies otherwise, but typically they can only go as far as assuming a creative commons type of licensing of the comment. You can google for more information, but this is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
If a reader comments on my blog, does she license the rights to me?
When a person enters comments on a blog for the purpose of public display, he is probably giving an implied license at least for that display and the incidental copying that goes along with it. If you want to make things clearer, you can add a Creative Commons license to your blog’s comment post page and a statement that by posting comments, writers agree to license them under it.
http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/IP
This give more information as well.
whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/05/who-has-comment-copyright-ownership-in.html
I purposely left out the http:// so that the spam bot here would not toss me in the dungeon.
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