http://genmates.com/2009/04/genealogy-blogs-on-blogspot/ Helping With Your Genealogy, Family History and Ancestry Research Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://genmates.com/2009/04/genealogy-blogs-on-blogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Georgeia Mangione Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:49:08 +0000 http://genmates.com/?p=457#comment-90 I am so glad you are posting this! So many people do not even read those agreements, they just click agree. Read them! Arthur Dirks is right - at least Google is putting it up front. But people need to make sure they read the entire agreement. For those of us who wish to have control over content, it is very inexpensive to register and host a domain name. It is not so hard to learn a CMS (Joomla, Drupal, whatever your choice), including a blog. And then it is yours. Once the rights belong to someone else, your intellectual property could end up on their site (or worse in a book or e-book), and there is nothing you can do about it. These are your thoughts, your research, your work. You want to share them freely through your blog. But please do not sign over all the rights to your works, unless you are 100% positive you want to give them away forever. I am so glad you are posting this! So many people do not even read those agreements, they just click agree. Read them! Arthur Dirks is right – at least Google is putting it up front. But people need to make sure they read the entire agreement. For those of us who wish to have control over content, it is very inexpensive to register and host a domain name. It is not so hard to learn a CMS (Joomla, Drupal, whatever your choice), including a blog. And then it is yours. Once the rights belong to someone else, your intellectual property could end up on their site (or worse in a book or e-book), and there is nothing you can do about it.
These are your thoughts, your research, your work. You want to share them freely through your blog. But please do not sign over all the rights to your works, unless you are 100% positive you want to give them away forever.

]]> http://genmates.com/2009/04/genealogy-blogs-on-blogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Arthur Dirks Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:30:14 +0000 http://genmates.com/?p=457#comment-84 It cannot be repeated enough: YOU CANNOT CONTROL CONTENT ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET. And it endures forever, even after you take it down. At least Google is putting up front. It cannot be repeated enough: YOU CANNOT CONTROL CONTENT ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET. And it endures forever, even after you take it down. At least Google is putting up front.

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