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Wait until someone gets the bright idea to mine all your past comments for factoids and pieces together your unauthorized biography.
by 0x12 15y ago
Wait until someone gets the bright idea to mine all your past comments for factoids and pieces together your unauthorized biography.
- AJ007 15y agoAnd then robo sells it on Amazon. (in reference to the guys selling Wikipedia entries as books.)
- stfu 15y agoHow is actually the comment "ownership" on Hackernews? Do I still hold the rights on my own words or are they already owned by ycombinator or gone down the creative commons?
- jahmed 15y agoI'm curious about this as well. I know slashdot's position is that "Comments owned by the poster".
- blahedo 15y agoThis is, of course, the legal default (at least in any country that subscribes to the Berne Convention). Unless there is some alternate policy somewhere that I don't remember signing, that would be the policy here as well. (IANAL, TINLA)
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoI am really glad the community worries about these things. We had a great discussion[1] about it a few months ago when Ronnie launched the database[1] of all comments/posts of hacker news, as a subproduct of the unnofficial API[3] he created. Don't think we had reached a conclusion though... [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 (long thread, more than one page) [3] http://api.ihackernews.com http://api.ihackernews.com
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoThere have been a couple instances of "interviews" or profiles done of celebrities based on their Twitter feed. Here is one Slate did of Kanye West: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/08/kanye_west_has_a_goblet.html http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/08/kanye_...