Our comments, in MN books, who owns our collective wisdom?

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Who owns our comments?

We can request them to be removed from this forum, but not in print. In posting we give consent for them to be on MN on the web, but does that extend to publication in a book.

I am not looking for a fight, it is a serious question, who owns the copyright to our words, if they are in publication? Was there consent to have our collective words printed in a book?

Erm... not since college.

so is there any way of finding out of one's words of wisdom have been used without buying book first...

It's not that I'm a tightwad, more that as i don't have a baby, a toddler or a preschooler, and am poor, I'm not in a position to buy one

Just a thought - even if Mumsnet holds the copyright to submissions, the poster still retains their moral rights and so could claim derogatory treatment/false attribution etc if you include their posts in a book. But I would have thought that the legal dept of your publisher would have some advice on that. I guess the chances of someone actually suing on that basis is pretty slim.

errr... Justine? If I have posted my birth story on mumsnet, will I be in breach of copyright laws if I post it elsewhere? Or write about it?

Well it's tricky because a lot of quotes are not attributed and that dumbwit MP forgot to make a note of them. But you could pop into Waterstones, flick through a copy, laugh extremely loudly so as to attract the attention of other shoppers, put it incredibly prominently on top of Miriam Stoppard and order a few copies from the man at the desk before rushing home to review it very favourably on Amazon?

QS - I don't think so and even if you were we weren't planning on suing.

Oh I see BabyPringle, well yes one would hope so... though we once thought that before and were unpleasantly surprised...

I thought you called me a fuckwit for a moment there

Miriam who???

Of course, I'd be more than happy to accept a review copy in order to flagrantly endorse it leave it lying around casually every week at our mum's group....

Never been that close to being sued before! piuh!

hoho

ROFL! How the hell did you unearth that gem mp....?

I swear I was a member of that once!

After a glass of wine and nearly finishing my work, I have consider that I will now contribute complete twaddle and freely use tiny segments of plagiarism, if found out, I will later to deny everything and say MN spoke to me in my dreams and me do it.

and 'told' me do it

Are Facebook now about to get sued? surely it's only fair....

Ah.

bells was croppy??? Noooooo.....Justine, you would know for definite, wouldn't you? I cannot believe it!

Oops

So is that an oops, yes I am right!

I have just read that. Books being moved? Surely MN are just tidying up?

got to go now, but can I say I met the lovely bells several times in real life along with other mumsnetters. Croppy (who was a proflific poster) cropped up quite often in our conversations at the time. I would eat my hat if croppy and bells are one and the same.

I found mumsnet after reading the book

am i alone in that?