My question/take on the LJ/DW comment drama thingy

[hkellick]

I guess my question is.. where is the line? Where is the line between what is acceptable or what is not?

I've written things I don't think I'd want moved over to another site without my permission. Here's an example: The Calorie-Count Diet. I spent serious time and effort working on that and if that were to appear.. on livejournal or dreamwidth or wordpad or ANY other site without my prior approval, whether it was attributed to me or not, I think I'd be kinda upset, because the message would be that I don't really "own" those words.

Same goes for.. alot of things. Let's talk fanfic. Alot of the people on dreamwidth are into Fanfic. What if someone wrote a great fanfic.. you or someone else you know, and then someone else posted it, without your permission, onto another site?

Perhaps you'll say that the difference is in.. intent. Comments are responses TO something, whereas things like a fanfic or the CC Diet were the something itself that was commented upon.

But my question is.. where's the line? Where's the line between things I DO own, and things I do not?

For the record, I do think the individual in question is being ridiculous. I think that instead of taking it up with the users who ported over her responses, she's trying to demonize the site as a whole, which is unfair and kinda passive-aggressive.

But as I keep thinking about it, I do have to wonder... if it's OK to port over here comments, properly attributed, without her permission, is it OK to port over more? Perhaps her journal? Perhaps only selected journal pieces?

... do you get what I am saying?

EDIT: I'm aware (now) that the line, as denise sees it, is between journal entries and comments, and I can respect that line. It's sensible, though arbitrary.

I'm not really looking to make a big deal out of this, so much as to state I PARTIALLY agree with the complainer. PARTIALLY.

Comments

[alierak]

It's about ownership of the space. Everyone knows that your journal is yours, so when I comment in it, I have to respect your ownership of the journal and your decision about where to host it. As long as you don't do anything like claim to have written my words, or alter them or their context, or take away my ability to retract them, or violate my expectations about who has access to read them, I don't see how it's any of my business what you do with your journal.

[adalger]

In the spirit of the Socratic method:

What happens if SomeSite (where you post your fic) changes its name to SomeOtherSite? Does this constitute a move?

What happens if SomeSite changes hosting companies and moves its existing data over to those servers with the same URL? Does this constitute a move?