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It's your blog, but it's not your comment.

• pbiggar 17y ago
  That's an interesting perspective. Does the poster "own" the comment on my blog? Do I? Since he has no control over it, is it mine? Is it still his if he posted anonymously? Does the fact that he put my email instead of his in the email box hand control over to me? All interesting philosophical questions. However, since I have editorial control, and determined that he was acting anti-socially, it seems perfectly fine to me to scribble over it (though I could see a problem if I wasn't transparent about it).
  • jemfinch 17y ago
    People own their own creations. The power owns (the copyright on) his comment even if he posts it to your blog, unless you've made an agreement otherwise (e.g., in your blog's terms of service). You control what your blog displays, though. There is probably a technical legal difference between deleting a comment (definitely right and legally permissible) and modifying a comment (thus creating a derivative work of a copyright work which you may not be licensed to derive from).