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Who has rights to blog comments?
Not to rehash a really long article, but I took a fairly in-depth look at what could be in the future an important topic for both bloggers and commentators: Who owns blog comments?
The initial answer seems obvious, but like everything else in life, there are at least two sides to it and the “obvious” answer differs depending on who is giving it. My first thought was that a blog commenter gives up his rights to a comment once he hits the submit button. The comment, as though he had said it out loud and it was recorded is now just “out there,” and is sort of public domain.
Public domain is a bad choice of phrase when talking about a potential copyright issue. It seems to me closest to a quote or sound bite, and a publisher, just like a newspaper, magazine, radio or TV show, has the right to edit or delete as he sees fit.
But something happened recently when Robert Scoble raised the issue that he owned his comments. A law professor from Santa Clara University told me pretty much the same thing. Surprisingly, he said that if the blogger wanted to publish a best-of anthology of comments, he would probably need the commenter’s permission. That was a shocking bit of legal interpretation for me. But I suppose with print, radio, and TV, they make it very clear in writing that submitted reader/viewer input becomes their property and they can do what they want with it after that.
This is leading to the idea that bloggers should make the same type of policy clear to their own readers.
Hmm, I guess it’s time to really work on that comments policy for my blog.
Comments from readers and bloggers alike really help both ways, the website and the commentor’s site as well.
Having a policy really nice but for upcoming blogs i don’t recommend it…
Maybe it is time to show a license before allowing to comment. And comments will become like a software - commercial, shareware, freeware, and GNU-licensed.
Hi,
I just voted for your excellent blog for Bloggers Choice awards.
Could you please return the favor at :
http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21620
Thanks,
SpEdLaw2
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