Do bloggers own the copyrights of their writings or www.wordpress.com does?

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  simonxmhu · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm

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  Do bloggers own the copyrights of their writings or http://www.wordpress.com does?
  Blog url: http://goingconcernrating.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:43 pm

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  The answer is we bloggers own our content. Please read the ToS to confirm that. http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  P.S. There is no “www” in any wordpress.com URL.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:44 pm

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  There are several steps that you can take in order to prevent your material from being used in an unauthorized manner. see > http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/

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  mandmca · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm

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  From an intellectual law perspective WordPress owns the template and all the associated ‘tools’ for ‘us’ to create and use the blog. As far as who owns the material that we users populate into that WordPress template belongs to the true owner. This can be you the user, as the original creator or author, or that that you purchased to put on the blog eg. photographs, videos, music files, exerts from books etc.
  To protect your own intellectual property and acknowledge the intellectual property that you either purchased or received written permission from others (photographs, videos, music files, exerts from books) simply add a ‘legals’ page to your blog saying so.

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  mandmca · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:54 pm

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  simonxmhu,
  I would be happy to forward you some examples of such a ‘disclaimer’ but please note that I cannot provide any legal advice.
  mandmca

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:55 pm

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  @mandmca
  Thanks in advance for removing the primary blog link to your username. Your blog has mature content and we have chlidren here. Please read this > http://en.support.wordpress.com/mature-content/

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  grandsupercycle · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:55 pm

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  simonxmhu,

  I have some intellectual property knowledge (but i’m not a lawyer)
  Unless stated elsewhere and agreed to by all parties it’s the originator of the work (you) who retains copyright.

  And beware of intellectual property infringement by other bloggers…
  http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:57 pm

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  @simonxmhu
  See http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/02/05/copyright-basics-for-bloggers/

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  mandmca · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 3:59 pm

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  timethief,
  What content are you specifically referring to?
  mandmca

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  simonxmhu · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm

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  Hi timethief,

  My blog does not mature material. What are you referring to?