Maven Terms of Service

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   k@riposted 4 years ago

   Does this mean that Maven effectively owns my work? 
   
   "You grant Maven a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content for any purpose and in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you for any purpose."

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      eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      No, we own copyright, but Maven can do what they like with it as long as it's on the service. We can remove content at any time (hopefully) unlike the case with other websites such as Wikihow where you sell your soul and can't delete your content (even though you still own copyright).
      Where did the "without compensation" bit come from? Does it mean earnings? Was this in the terms when there was a long forum discussion about all this several months ago?

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         k@riposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         That is part of what I do not like, the rest comes right before that stating, ". . . in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you for any purpose."  I didn't find anything about this on that forum when I looked.

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         Venkatachari Mposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         As far as I understand it, it doesn't refer to your earnings from advertisements. They (Maven) simply tell you that they will not pay you any money for publishing or using your content for any purpose. But, you will be earning the revenue from your own post wherever you have published it. It is so simple.

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   paradigmsearchposted 4 years ago

   We are candles in the wind...

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   Ben716posted 4 years ago

   What I do know is that we own the copyright to our work. We can delete and publish them elsewhere as I have done with articles that aren't getting any views here.
   As long as the article exists on their site, they can use it in whatever format and however they want.
   But still that part you quoted is scary.

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      blue22dposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      If one does post elsewhere, do you then have to delete that particular article from here?

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         Randy Godwinposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Yes, You then have wait a proper time for it to disappear from the serps before posting it elsewhere.

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            blue22dposted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks for your reply!

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               Ben716posted 4 years agoin reply to this

               Yes. You have to delete here before you publish it elsewhere. But as noted by Randy, you have to wait until the presence of the article no longer exists on Hubpages' servers. It usually takes a minimum of two weeks.

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                  theraggededgeposted 4 years agoin reply to this

                  This is incorrect. You can publish your material anywhere AFTER it has been published at HubPages. There's no requirement to remove it from HP and there's no penalty, apart from the fact that it doesn't make sense to do so.
                  
                  However, you can't publish it here if you have ALREADY published it elsewhere otherwise it will trip the duplicate content filter.

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                     Ben716posted 4 years agoin reply to this

                     You are correct. I did it the other way. You can't publish an article here that you've published it in another site.

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                        blue22dposted 4 years agoin reply to this

                        Thanks. Appreciate the clarity.

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                     blue22dposted 4 years agoin reply to this

                     Good to know.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 4 years ago

   It would be nice if we benefited a little bit from this...

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   k@riposted 4 years ago

   I found the following in another forum called "Update to the HubPages Privacy . . . "  It was an answer to some of my questions.  The answer came from Robin, staff.  I am going to post my question on the other forum.  Thank you all for your help.
   
   "Great question. There were similar questions raised by the community in October, and the same answers apply now. Since HubPages was acquired by Maven, we now have the ability to potentially get your content even broader traffic, while still tracking and crediting it into your earnings. There is essentially no difference for you other than hopefully we can make you more money because being a part of the Maven ecosystem of sites allows us to get more eyeballs in front of your content. You still retain all the same ownership rights and control on your content, and we will continue to have your best interest at heart in regard to this ownership."

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   paradigmsearchposted 4 years ago

   Just thought I'd mention...
   
   Before moving an article anywhere:
   A. Be sure to find and have removed all the stolen copies.
   B. Be sure to instruct Google to remove all the index links.

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      k@riposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Good point, paradigmsearch.  Finding all the copies is a giant task.  And if you miss one, it will have an older publishing date than any moved articles.

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         paradigmsearchposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Yeah, it's getting to the point where it is almost impossible. Personally, I'd have used a much more colorful term than "giant task".

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