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Ask HN: What is the license of comments here?
On a site like stackoverflow, all questions and answers are licensed under Creative Commons and can be copied at will (when properly attributed). So, what is the license of comments here?
- adultSwim 11y agoI would assume users retain full rights to their comments. I wasn't aware I had agreed to anything else.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoNo attempt to protect a copyright means no rights.
- nness 11y agoThat is incorrect. You are thinking of trademarks and patents.
- eric_bullington 11y agoNope, you're thinking of trademarks. Your copyright exists at the exact moment you create a copyrighted work, and you needn't do anything else to retain that right [1]. 1. http://web.law.columbia.edu/keep-your-copyrights/copyrights http://web.law.columbia.edu/keep-your-copyrights/copyrights
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoRight, thanks!
- brudgers 11y ago[IANAL] Not in the United States. Here copyright is owned by the author upon publication with only narrow and explicit exceptions.
- tptacek 11y agoThat's true of every Berne Convention country; it is the norm.
- eli 11y agoPresumably each comment is copyrighted by its individual author and all rights are reserved unless they tell you differently. Sites like SO that explicitly require comments to be licensed CC are the exception.
- maddayou 11y agoHi, I am one of those who use; parts of sentences, sentences, topics thoughts, of HN comments/commenters, from the web generaly, but i never asked. Often it's the provoking, or funy, or.... -stuff, i use. Everytime i finished something "postable" i share it with a cc-nc-share alike-licence, which i think is in the motto of educate, enlightenment, and "share". i hope that i did nothing wrong or intolerable... it is a direct linking and dev-art doesn't like but risk a look find something dau-related here: http://orig11.deviantart.net/c302/f/2015/257/1/4/_en__by_immernoch_september-d99klm8.png http://orig11.deviantart.net/c302/f/2015/257/1/4/_en__by_imm...