A couple of people have asked me to make a plugin of the comment license terms I’ve added to the comment form on my web site. Here y’all go.
Comment License shows a license with terms of your choosing in your comments form. You can edit the terms of your license in the options page.
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
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No, copyright license is perpetual (in Canada / USA), so the license may be difficult to interpret. Probably best to use an existing license such as a Creative Commons license.
Instead of “submitting a comment” maybe “commenting” is a better phrase choice.
Copyright is not a license.
From a legalistic standpoint (though IANAL), this should probably come _before_ the “Add Comment” button, not after it. A person could arguably hit the button and not have read what came after it.
Unfortunately, that isn’t where the comment form hook is. Legally, this probably isn’t binding anyway – there is still a lot of law to be written/argued in this area.
“a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution”
From a purely grammatical view, that reads as if it gives you permission to scrape and republish the content of a commenter’s website. Yes, I know what it’s intended to mean, but some modification to the language might be for the best. Perhaps “name/URL” instead of “name/website”?
I’m currently using this to highlight our comment guidelines on an internal staff blog. Could the plugin be expanded to allow the addition of links to other pages?
Sure, just modify it so the output isn’t encoded.
I really do like this plugin a lot for professional websites.
Alex is correct that this isn’t legally binding in any way. I doubt the issue would come up much in a nonprofessional blog, but if you have a professional website, check with an IP lawyer for what the wording should be.
Alex,
Thanks for the pointer, I’ve adjusted the plugin so the output isn’t encoded. It is a very useful plugin for reminding our users of the comment guidelines on our internal blog.
Great plugin, thx for it alex
Yep, very usefull
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