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It's actually quite easy. Go get all your comments, and submit them to the copyright office. Remember, you have innate copyright even if it's not registered. B
by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
It's actually quite easy.
Go get all your comments, and submit them to the copyright office. Remember, you have innate copyright even if it's not registered. But registering ALL your comments on HN can be done for $50.
Then file a DMCA against your content. If they don't remove, then you can sue up to $135k/violation.
You can also register as much content as one shot. So if you have the time, cover all your content, everywhere. And if some org gives you the run-around, DMCA'em.
Also technically, you can DMCA them without a copyright filing. But having that legal backing has real teeth.
- F147H34D 7y agoWould this create a record of the comments at the copyright office?
- jefftk 7y agoThe HN terms (https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) have the very typical: > By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed. When you send someone a DMCA takedown you need to include "A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law" and "a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury". [1] So you probably don't want to send someone a DMCA request after giving them a license to use your comments! [1] https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright...