Copyright of Material published on WordPress.com

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  silviafischer · Member · Feb 23, 2015 at 11:15 am

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  Who has the Copyright for the Material I put on my WordPress-Blog, me or WordPress?

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  susanhayse · Member · Feb 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm

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  Check the Terms of Service document.

  https://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing, and promoting your blog. This license allows Automattic to make publicly-posted content available to third parties selected by Automattic (through the Automattic Firehose, for example) so that these third parties can analyze and distribute (but not publicly display) your content through their services. You also give other WordPress.com users permission to share your Content on other WordPress.com sites and add their own Content to it (aka to reblog your Content), so long as they use only a portion of your post and they give you credit as the original author by linking back to your site (the reblogging function on WordPress.com does this automatically!).