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Demand Media Scamming Bloggers: Demand Media Blog Network

Demand Media doesn't actually pay bloggers to write, but they offer to syndicate your blog - basically, Demand Media will link to the blogger's posts. Yet they snuck in the contract this language: Your Grant of Rights. Each of your Contributions will be original and solely created by you as a ?work-made-for-hire? specially ordered or commissioned by us, with Demand Media being deemed the sole author of the Contribution and the owner of all rights whether now known or hereafter devised (including all copyrights and all extensions and renewals of copyrights) in and to the Contribution, with the right to make all uses of the Contribution throughout the world and all changes in each Contribution. Without further obligation to you, we may use, reproduce, edit, change, add to, take from, translate, reformat, or reprocess the Contribution in any manner...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).