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canadian copyright on blogs?

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t1t4n1um

9:29 pm on Jul 6, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello all,

I'm wondering if it's legal for me to take my own content from another website and post it in my current website. I was fired from writing on a blog, and the owner of the blog changed all my posts so they displayed written by (name of admin).

So what I want to do is to take my own content and put it on my site. I see no copyright page of any sort on his site, in fact, at the bottom of each post, it still says "All images property of T1T4N1UM"

Why I want the posts is because they were pretty much a record of a 10 day vacation I took, and every post had my own pictures in it. I attempt to be a photographer, and all my pictures are valuable to me.

Which brings me to another point. I uploaded a lot of pictures to his servers, original files, not the ones used in the posts, but still relevant to that vacation. Now that I [of course] don't have access to the server, I can't remove them. What are the legal "rules" on him keeping data that belonged to me? I understand that I willingly uploaded the files, which is his argument when I ask for him to delete them.

Thank you in advance.

Demaestro

10:22 pm on Jul 6, 2010 (gmt 0)

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IANAL but my understanding of it is..... Unless you wrote it under contract as an employee then you own the copyright to the content.

If you were paid to write it as an employee or even as a contract then the person who paid you may own the material in which case there is nothing you can do other than ask permission.

If you did it acting for yourself then you hold the sole copyright to the content and depending on what deal you made with the website and what you agreed to you may even be able to ask them to remove your content from their site.

If the site has a TOS that gives them the right to use content you upload in perpetuity then you may have to leave it there but at least you can move forward knowing you can put it on your own site as well.

t1t4n1um

2:12 am on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Many thanks, I'll be busy archiving now :)