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Links of the Week | D. Cecelia Martinez — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:17:18 +0000

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By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:24:04 +0000

Well said Debra – These types of firings happen everyday in the real world outside of the blogosphere and bloggers who are let go should treat this with the same discretion as they would any other job or suffer the consequences as you so eloquently stated.

This doesn’t take away what a crap thing B5 did.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:55 +0000

Definitely a contract check is required. My old contract says I own my content and can use it as I like in ‘non blogging mediums’, but can’t use on blogs ‘en masse’.

By: Christina Jones

Christina Jones — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:02:28 +0000

WONDERFUL post Deb. Many things that needed to be said. I just want to say that if anyone needs any help or advice about striking out on their own, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Im not busy, and would love to help out if I can. Missing all y’all so much, and I am so sorry this has all gone down in such an ugly way.

By: Deb Ng

Deb Ng — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:06:03 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Duncan. And as for that secret stuff…..I don’t know nothin’…

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Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:47:04 +0000

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By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:10:05 +0000

Just to confirm the content note: the original contracts left content ownership with the blogger; you couldn’t post it elsewhere while under contract, but you could if you left. Having said that, that was a long time ago, and I’d check whether later contracts that forbid this were retrospective or not.

As for sending through secret stuff, obviously you shouldn’t be saying that publicly. But feel free to send it through privately

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