check who owns the content of any website you post to!

[Jim]

Just saw this blog

https://kawaneehamilton.wordpress.com...

Random House bought the website 'Underlined' This is a writing website where users can post their work for feedback
Except that once posted on the website it may belong to Random House

[Patti (baconater)]

Hmmmm

Copy and pasted from the site.

By posting your content on the Sites, you expressly grant PRH a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up worldwide, fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, perform and display such content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Submission, in whole or in part, and in any form throughout the world in any media or technology, whether now known or hereafter discovered, including all promotion, advertising, marketing, merchandising, publicity and any other ancillary uses thereof, and including the unfettered right to sublicense such rights, in perpetuity throughout the universe. We may refuse or remove User Submissions for any reason and without notice. All User Submissions are deemed non-confidential and PRH shall be under no obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any information, in whatever form, contained in any User Submission.

[Jim]

Or pretty much anything you might one day want to use

[Anna]

Thanks Jim and Patti. Sigh...

[Joseph]

It's complicated. They tend to put these things in to cover their bases regarding the website itself, and promoting it; however, those terms are massively open to abuse.