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How 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 crea
by stfu 15y ago
How 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