One of the great ironies of this situation is many of the now defunct websites had contracts and writing agreements that were absolutely egregious. Often the bo

One of the great ironies of this situation is many of the now defunct websites had contracts and writing agreements that were absolutely egregious. Often the boilerplate would say that they owned the article (which they paid you a pittance for) until the end of all time. Prior, in the print era, the standard agreement was they'd have the rights to your story upon publication then after a reasonable amount of time the rights would revert to the author.