LiveJournal is ganking my copyright?
Today, LiveJournal changed the profile page. Now it says at the bottom that they own a copyright (presumptively, for all text on the page) and that they have retroactively owned said copyright since 1999. Has anyone read the terms of service recently? brad (back when he owned the company) said that people who post things own the stuff they post (which is why he was always a little iffy about the copyright on comments-are you gifting the recipient with your copyright or merely granting him permission to host your words on "his" page?). Other social-networking sites have occasionally claimed ownership of user-contributed text, but generally they back down when they realize how much customers dislike that. Remember customers? You know, the animated wallets who keep the site running?
Thankfully there's nothing on the profile page that I really care about, except the dog-photo. I own the copyright on that photo. I inherited that copyright from my late brother, who captured this image of our family pet many years ago. The image is "too small for copyright protection" in the United States, but what is its status in Russia, home of our new LJ overlords?
Thankfully there's nothing on the profile page that I really care about, except the dog-photo. I own the copyright on that photo. I inherited that copyright from my late brother, who captured this image of our family pet many years ago. The image is "too small for copyright protection" in the United States, but what is its status in Russia, home of our new LJ overlords?