WordPress.com Forums » Topic: copyrights in blogs http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyrights-in-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Topic: copyrights in blogs en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thesacredpath on "copyrights in blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyrights-in-blogs#post-135866 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:42:01 +0000 thesacredpath 135866@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As a general rule, I suggest adding a copyright statement to a text widget and placing that text widget at the top of the sidebar. Some bloggers have complete "legal" pages with comment policies, disclaimers, copyright notices and the like.

That said, if it is your work, and you post it on your blog, then it is copyrighted regardless of whether you have a statement or not.

]]> kimik0 on "copyrights in blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyrights-in-blogs#post-135862 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:05:43 +0000 kimik0 135862@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The text you write is yours. If you put in images that you created yourself, they're yours. All the rest is most likely someone else's (stuff like the layout, the blogging software, etc.).

]]> timethief on "copyrights in blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyrights-in-blogs#post-135861 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:05:18 +0000 timethief 135861@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is the link to the WordPress.com ToS but
There are many threads in the forum searchbox illustrating that blog scrapers do not respect copyright. They steal blog content and place it on their sites so they can gain money from advertising their ill gotten gains.
Forum searchbox results:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=copyright
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17307

]]> cultor on "copyrights in blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyrights-in-blogs#post-135860 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:55:13 +0000 cultor 135860@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does publishing a blog in WordPress assure me some copyright (international) to my texts?
Thanks.

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