Blog Rights

dont-get-cute   |   Wed, May 23, 2012 2:21 AM EST

Say, is there some kind of uniform legal understanding of the ownership and rights to us contributors content on various blogs, such as BMG and HuffingtonPost and Boston.com? (Not including the ownership of stuff we post links to, like that truly awesome Rick James video I just embedded, which you should watch five times in a row to appreciate Rick James’s acting and singing and overall amazingness) but stuffff like this, truly ungrammitacal stuff, like Rick James himself coming home intoxicated. My understanding is that BMG can publish everything all their users contribute (“can tribute”) but that they don’t own our contributions, I can go make this same post on RMG or incorporate it into a book I’m writing and BMG can’t object. Is that about right?


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  1. Question, dont-get-cute
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    I noticed that, on Friday, at 6:18pm, you posted:

    PLAGIARISM SCANDAL: Warren even lied about her “Native American” Recipes

    Wow! If you thought Elizabeth Warren’s “Crab with Tomato Dressing” didn’t seem like a traditional Cherokee recipe, you were correct. It has now been discovered that Warren copied nearly verbatim three of the five recipes she submitted to the Native American Cookbook Pow Wow Chow. Breitbart.com reports:

    That was followed by an excerpt from the right-wing media outlet.

    I also noticed that, on Red Mass Group, on the same day, a bit earlier in the day, though, user Rob “EaBo Clipper” Eno posted:

    PLAGIARISM SCANDAL: Warren even lied about her “Native American” Recipes

    If you thought Elizabeth Warren’s “Crab with Tomato Dressing” didn’t seem like a traditional Cherokee recipe, you’d be right. Howie Carr has uncovered evidence that suggests Warren copied wholesale three of the five recipes she submitted to the Native American Cookbook Pow Wow Chow. Breitbart.com has the story.

    And that was followed by the same excerpt from the right-wing media outlet that you excerpted. The two quoted passages, by you and by Rob “EaBo Clipper” Eno, are nearly verbatim.

    As much as we all appreciate irony, it would be disappointing if you plagiarized a blogger on Red Mass Group to promote a manufactured scandal about plagiarism. (Of course, if you, dont-get-cute, are the same person as Red Mass Group user Rob “EaBo Clipper” Eno, then there’s no problem, and I would certainly withdraw my concern. You certainly can copy yourself.) Any comment? Just a coincidence?

    progressmass   @   Wed 23 May 10:27 AM

    • OMG!!
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      PLAGAIRISM!!1!!1!

      david   @   Wed 23 May 10:29 AM

    • HA! Great catch!
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      Cutie, we anxiously await your reply – did you plagiarize your PLAGIARISM SCANDAL post, or are you actually a sock puppet for Rob “Eabo Clipper” Eno?? Enquiring minds want to know…

      johnt001   @   Wed 23 May 3:03 PM

      • I deny everything
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        It’s my own work. Rob Eno’s post is completely different, see it says things like “you’d be right” while mine says “you are correct.”

        dont-get-cute   @   Wed 23 May 4:29 PM

        • Plagirism, defined
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          From Dictionary.com:

          pla·gia·rism
             [pley-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-] noun
          an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as by not crediting the original author:

          Your post appears to fall under the “closely imitating” category, you plagiarist!

          johnt001   @   Wed 23 May 4:41 PM

    • This is outrageous
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      Once again, the qualifications and ability of a woman are being called into question. What do you think it takes for a woman to be qualified?

      dont-get-cute   @   Wed 23 May 4:40 PM

  2. If you post here,
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    we own it. And you. And all your stuff. That repo truck coming down the street toward your place? I’m driving it. MMMWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    david   @   Wed 23 May 10:28 AM

  3. Just look at the bottom of every page:
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    All content copyright © BMG Media Empire LLC. Some rights reserved.

    And read the license.

    Bob_Neer   @   Wed 23 May 10:43 AM

    • Read it and weep :)
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      Yeah, BMG owns the copyright to EVERYTHING, and I guess that means that everything we write is a “work for hire” — exchanged for the LUCRATIVE consideration we receive for doing so. :)

      I’m not an attorney, nor do I play one television, and I think the creative commons license you cite doesn’t itself say that I transfer my copyright to BMG when I hit the “submit” button.

      All kidding aside, and although it doesn’t matter to me, perhaps there is a better answer somewhere to his question of whether we agree to assign our copyright rights to BMG when we hit the “submit” button (or, alternatively, retain our rights and give BMG permission to publish our comments).

      I think his final question is a fair one: suppose I write a book, and I want to incorporate text that I’ve submitted here over the years in that book. Do I need the permission of BMG to, for example, sell copies of that book (“commercial use” of the text that I previously submitted to BMG)?

      somervilletom   @   Wed 23 May 12:02 PM

    • Copyright
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      Bob, this isn’t legal advice, etc., etc., but I think that BMG owns the copyright to the collection and that individual posters continue to own the copyright to their own work. I think that posters implicitly license you to reproduce and distribute their works, but I don’t see that the implicit license is exclusive.

      tedf   @   Thu 24 May 9:25 AM

  4. Most of what I post is garbage.
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    so feel free to haul it away.

    merrimackguy   @   Wed 23 May 11:55 AM

  5. How true
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    .

    whosmindingdemint   @   Wed 23 May 7:49 PM

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