Comments on: Control Of Your Online Content – Think Again

By: Rich Chuckrey

Rich Chuckrey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:20 +0000

We agree artists are the ones who suffer. I'd say we disagree though on the 95-99% of people not caring. People care if they know. But do they care enough is the question. ;D

By: Rich Chuckrey

Rich Chuckrey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:23:19 +0000

You do 'not' give up ownership after pressing 'post comment.' Your comment is yours unless we establish some kind of written user agreement [like Facebook's]. Not sure without consulting counsel, but I think if we altered your comment and left it here under your name (minus stripping it of say, vulgarity), we'd open ourselves up for copyright infringement. A lawyer could better answer, but I for one wouldn't take a leap of faith and start tinkering with our readers' comments.

I'd say making the first $10K is quite a deal — if you're doing it on university time….

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:56:37 +0000

Quick, please, pull the plug on the interwebs … :P
It is true, though, nobody really reads the conditions and terms when they sign up for an online service. Only when actual content is placed and rumors start spreading people look into the ToS and then realize they've been had. And 95-99% of the people doesn't really care, because they think that what they publish is public domain anyway. It is only potentially dangerous for artists, because you don't want to upload your music, the novel they're writing, the paintiings, photography, etc, only to find out they don't really fully own it anymore.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:13:07 +0000

How about comments here? I'm not saying that I disagree with your article. however you yourself have the ability to modify and delete comments on here through what ever means and we the commenter have no real rights over that because as soon I press “post comment” I give ownership of that comment to the blog, you can then edit it to change its meaning or plain delete comments that disagree with the article.

Again I am not saying that I disagree with what you are saying, however face books new policy is not even half as bad as the contracts students unknowingly sign into upon starting university which is as thus: any work you produce which makes a profit during your tenure at university immediately becomes the IP of said university at which point any profits must be handed over. My university has this policy and I understand that it is a standard across the whole of the higher education system, if I make over ten grand on a project I get to keep that ten grand and any further profit goes to the university – it sucks but this is what we get for being a part of a capitalist culture based around selfish ideology. Much of theology may be old hat in a modern world, but at least it taught us morals.