Reblogging automatically uploads ALL images in the post to your media library
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I’ve had a moment to test this myself and, truly, WordPress.com cannot justify pulling in every single image from a reblogged post into a reblogger’s Media Library. This is not “fair use”. This is nothing short of scandalous.
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It is also rather scary, then all people have to do is reblog a post, and bam they have all your images in their media library to do with as they please.
Thanks to WordPress is now even easier for people to steal your work. It is a real concern. -
This is not “fair use”. This is nothing short of scandalous.
Agreed. For pity sake as we all have the same flipping web host. Hence reblogging images means they can be hotlinked – so why the frap has this scandalous approach been chosen?
P.S. There is discussion on this and other Reader related features taking place on my blog post here > Worrisome (or not) WordPress.com Reader Developments
It’s one of the very few posts I have published in the last 7 years that borders on being a rant.
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It seems that WP is ignoring its own TOS. As justjennifer noted (emphases mine):
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. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Are we to understand that WordPress’s reproducing our images and storing them in other people’s libraries is “distributing” our blogs as intended under this license? Yuh … I don tink so Lucy.
And when they do NOTHING to delete the “reblogged” images from other users’ libraries, if we delete the post, how does that wash with their commitment to “use reasonable efforts to remove it.” What efforts?
1. WP does not have a license to distribute our content in this way. The practice does not comport with the intended “distribute” term in the license.
2. WP is delinquent in making the so-called reasonable effort to delete from their website what we “delete” from our blogs and libraries.
Not that I can stop anybody from swiping images from my posts, but I don’t want WP facilitating wholesale reproduction of them … in a manner contrary to the license I grant them and their TOS.
Of course, they can change the TOS, too.
Maybe this sheds some light on some of those blogs that have nothing but reblogs in them. If someone does that with the intent of collecting images in their library, is that theft/IP rights infringement, facilitated by WP?
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P.S.: I’ll never use reblog again, and I’m deleting all my (few) reblogs. When I get pinged by a reblogger, maybe I should send them a link to this thread.
Now, regretfully, to think about self-hosting — not at all a casual decision. One I’ve dreaded, actually.
And to think about inserting a protest image in all new and recent posts, to raise awareness among people who don’t know about this — i.e., “everybody” — (and to distribute it to rebloggers’ libraries).
Huh … what a notion: an anti-reblogging post gone viral. LOL.
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