Legal question. Who owns the rights to Reviews? - GoFuckYourself.com

AdultStudios · 10-12-2003, 12:20 PM

Legal question

I'm so confused on this.I have about 50 reviews done from me and my close friends under 10 diffrent names. and they are up at AdultDVDtalk.com I think of reviews like lyrics to a song,. Person who wrote it owns it. I feel that anyryone who has written a reviewa and submitted to a site should get paid for it each time it is read. I'm talking pennies.. Can you say Class action suit here?

FYI. Good soruce of mone wastalking about this very thing.

Thanks in advance for any info or help

AdultStudios · 10-12-2003, 12:21 PM

posts from last week.

I know AdultDVDTalk.com has a little disclaimer: here it is

*By submitting your review to ADT you agree to assign an exclusive transferable copyright to ADT. You assign all copyrights for your review and all reviews become property of ADT.com which may edit, alter, retransmit, transfer or use any way it sees fit. There is no financial compensation for submitting reviews and submitting a review does not guarantee that it will be published.

So my point is when they sell the business I bet the review content they have will account for 50% of the sale. we are talking over a million dollars here. they have 5500 reviews that they did not write or we're part of the creative process in. I don't know if a 4 line disclaimer can cut it. The reviewer has not signed a thing.

The Village People have a song called "Y.M.C.A." and it is played everyday on different radio stations. Every time it gets played it makes money on royalties. it might only be 16 cents every time, but they still have to pay that to the owner of the song.

This reminds me of all the blues musicians who got their songs ripped off by the white man in the 1950's. If they ever sell ADT they will have to pay something to every reviewer and their reviews. They cannot have a 5 line disclaimer on a site and expect that to be binding in a court of law.

More to come on this

ADT has no employees, but yet they copyright the reviewers review. forgive me if copyright isn't the right term. Let's say dumbblonde(ADT slave) starts her own site and she wants to to make it a review site. And lets say they had a falling out. ADT can sue her if she uses any reviews that she wrote on her site. I know before they do reviews she has to agree that her reviews are not really hers, to use except only related to ADT. ADT is a private company and can do what they want with their business. I call them the napster of porn. Reviews are just the same as song lyrics and every review must be paid for the use of that content.

Bottom line, every website who has content on their site pays for it one way or another. ADT doesn't even give the content provider(reviewer) a bowl of soup. Prove me wrong on this please.

10-12-2003, 12:20 PM	#1
AdultStudios Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 14	Legal question. Who owns the rights to Reviews? Legal question I'm so confused on this.I have about 50 reviews done from me and my close friends under 10 diffrent names. and they are up at AdultDVDtalk.com I think of reviews like lyrics to a song,. Person who wrote it owns it. I feel that anyryone who has written a reviewa and submitted to a site should get paid for it each time it is read. I'm talking pennies.. Can you say Class action suit here? FYI. Good soruce of mone wastalking about this very thing. Thanks in advance for any info or help Last edited by AdultStudios; 10-12-2003 at 12:33 PM..

10-12-2003, 12:21 PM	#2
AdultStudios Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 14	posts from last week. I know AdultDVDTalk.com has a little disclaimer: here it is *By submitting your review to ADT you agree to assign an exclusive transferable copyright to ADT. You assign all copyrights for your review and all reviews become property of ADT.com which may edit, alter, retransmit, transfer or use any way it sees fit. There is no financial compensation for submitting reviews and submitting a review does not guarantee that it will be published. So my point is when they sell the business I bet the review content they have will account for 50% of the sale. we are talking over a million dollars here. they have 5500 reviews that they did not write or we're part of the creative process in. I don't know if a 4 line disclaimer can cut it. The reviewer has not signed a thing. The Village People have a song called "Y.M.C.A." and it is played everyday on different radio stations. Every time it gets played it makes money on royalties. it might only be 16 cents every time, but they still have to pay that to the owner of the song. This reminds me of all the blues musicians who got their songs ripped off by the white man in the 1950's. If they ever sell ADT they will have to pay something to every reviewer and their reviews. They cannot have a 5 line disclaimer on a site and expect that to be binding in a court of law. More to come on this ADT has no employees, but yet they copyright the reviewers review. forgive me if copyright isn't the right term. Let's say dumbblonde(ADT slave) starts her own site and she wants to to make it a review site. And lets say they had a falling out. ADT can sue her if she uses any reviews that she wrote on her site. I know before they do reviews she has to agree that her reviews are not really hers, to use except only related to ADT. ADT is a private company and can do what they want with their business. I call them the napster of porn. Reviews are just the same as song lyrics and every review must be paid for the use of that content. Bottom line, every website who has content on their site pays for it one way or another. ADT doesn't even give the content provider(reviewer) a bowl of soup. Prove me wrong on this please.