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Interesting point, I googled for 'who owns copyright blog comments' and found this (Google cache, the site itself is down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.c

Interesting point, I googled for 'who owns copyright blog comments' and found this (Google cache, the site itself is down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFrkhikJ:www.reasonableman.com/archive/2005/02/who_owns_blog_c.html+who+owns+copyright+blog+comments&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFr... I'd like to hear if anyone else agrees or disagrees with this article (it seems to be a bit of a grey area).

kmfrk 16y ago
I think it was when talking to Jonathan from Plagiarism Today (http://www.plagiarismtoday.com http://www.plagiarismtoday.com) that I was told that forum posts should be regarded as the authors' own, legal copyright property. I may have some old notes on this around that I can dig up. Some forums (and sites like YouTube) write some Terms of Use/EULAs to waive their content rights to the site owners (not for any nefarious reasons), although I doubt that these "agreements" hold up. If I had any comments or forum posts that were copied verbatim in a manner that upset me, I would definitely pursue it legally. But I'm a fanatic like that.