Though this article focuses mainly on comments, forum posts, and the like I’ve posted a few times myself on the licensing issues that people aren’t aware of or don’t seem to care about.

I know you’ve read my little post about licensing with hreviews and the huge conflicts there. I also have major issues with how places like Amazon go about notifying people posting reviews and such of their rights.

I posted about it a while back and I believe it’s gotten worse since. When one goes to submit a review, the “review guidelines” are right at the top for you to click on and read, however the “Conditions of Use” link is below anything you have to write in, click, etc and on my screen it’s not visible without scrolling down which most people wouldn’t do since everything needed to submit the review is already on the screen.

Only when you find that link, click, and wade through the massive all-in-one conditions of use page and manage to find the part relavent to content submission once you get to the second paragraph you are then notified that by submitting content you are agreeing to about a billion things including giving them more or less all rights to do anything they want with said content (and I do mean anything. I didn’t write as much detail about how out of the way and inconvenient it is, but, as always, you can see the other details in my old post if you wish.

I’ll be applying something similar to what you’ve done with your comment form and petitioning for including something similar as an option in the next release of K2 since they’re looking at changing the comment form anyway. Comment form plugins for WordPress are by nature more difficult than they should be unfortunately.

Cheers,

JÄ?

Though this article focuses mainly on comments, forum posts, and the like I’ve posted a few times myself on the licensing issues that people aren’t aware of or don’t seem to care about.

I know you’ve read my little post about licensing with hreviews and the huge conflicts there. I also have major issues with how places like Amazon go about notifying people posting reviews and such of their rights.

I posted about it a while back and I believe it’s gotten worse since. When one goes to submit a review, the “review guidelines” are right at the top for you to click on and read, however the “Conditions of Use” link is below anything you have to write in, click, etc and on my screen it’s not visible without scrolling down which most people wouldn’t do since everything needed to submit the review is already on the screen.

Only when you find that link, click, and wade through the massive all-in-one conditions of use page and manage to find the part relavent to content submission once you get to the second paragraph you are then notified that by submitting content you are agreeing to about a billion things including giving them more or less all rights to do anything they want with said content (and I do mean anything. I didn’t write as much detail about how out of the way and inconvenient it is, but, as always, you can see the other details in my old post if you wish.

I’ll be applying something similar to what you’ve done with your comment form and petitioning for including something similar as an option in the next release of K2 since they’re looking at changing the comment form anyway. Comment form plugins for WordPress are by nature more difficult than they should be unfortunately.

Cheers,

JÄ?

On a blog, one can post in the copyright notice: “All comments posted after such-and-such date are under X license, prior to that, they are under an implied license.” On a wiki, any given page can have substantial portions written and edited by different people, and it really tests the limits of the implied license.

By the way, you might want to change the license text at the bottom of your page to reflect that the comments and original work are under incompatible licenses (unless the existence of a comment adds the notice, and I just don’t see it yet).

On a blog, one can post in the copyright notice: "All comments posted after such-and-such date are under X license, prior to that, they are under an implied license." On a wiki, any given page can have substantial portions written and edited by different people, and it really tests the limits of the implied license.

By the way, you might want to change the license text at the bottom of your page to reflect that the comments and original work are under incompatible licenses (unless the existence of a comment adds the notice, and I just don't see it yet).