My Blog, My Property
@jillybean1222 (6407)
October 20, 2015 11:38am CST
I just read a post on Bubblews from a user who was upset that she couldn't delete her posts there to use elsewhere.
I guess I would understand if she is attempting to sell to a magazine or something.
However, my thoughts are this: if I want to move my writing from one blog to another, then I can. It's my property. My thoughts. My words. I currently have several active blogs. I'm attempting to consolidate which is a long, tedious process. I have been moving some of my blogs from Bubblews to my new blog. Since the delete button is not working over there, I'm simply stating on my other blog that "This blog was originally published on Bubblews" on whatever date.
I fear losing my meaningful work if the big Bubble happens to close up shop. My computer crashed a few months ago. So I have no backup of most posts. Hence my need to do this slow tedious process of moving stuff to a stable environment.
I'm not trying to move everything. Just the meaningful things like: poetry, posts about my grief, posts specific to my son, Nolan and losing him.
Do you think I'm doing anything wrong in that?
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@jillybean1222 (6407)
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20 Oct 15
@miwa33 I seriously doubt i will ever earn anything off this stuff anyway, so it shouldn't make a difference, right?
@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 Oct 15
I've saved most of the Bubblews I care about to a back-up place. I think some are miffed because they can't recycle old Bubblews to sites that demand original material. I've "re-worked" old pieces for new sites, but I don't like recycling without revision anyway. But I don't like the fact that Bubblews appears to have "captured"our works so they can make money off of them and not pay their writers (at least until the legal bombshell falls).
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@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Oct 15
@jillybean1222 Interesting that they're paying some of their writers now. I hope that continues until all that is owed from 2015 is paid. Then we can think about 2013 and 2014.
@yukimori (10148)
• United States
20 Oct 15
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't even bother giving the site the courtesy of a mention. The absolute worst that they can do is delete your account.
I don't think any of them care enough to bother policing the content on the site anymore. The exception might be the moderator, but who's going to point it out to her? Most users are completely fed up with the site.
@jillybean1222 (6407)
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25 Oct 15
I do still like the site. And I'm not going to stop writing there.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
28 Oct 15
She wouldn't be specifying where they were written first for bubblews, but for the people that find her writings and see they were elsewhere first.
@jillybean1222 (6407)
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20 Oct 15
I was just thinking that honestly, i almost want it to remain in bubbles too so that you can see the original publication date. just in case, at some point, someone plagiarized me!
@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Oct 15
@jillybean1222 Not THAT'S a good reason to keep stuff up. Or at least archive it in such a way that the archive date is clear (not sure I know how to do that).
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
21 Oct 15
I don't know the law about web sites saying they own your work or that you can't put your work on any sites you want--I am sure there are lawyers working on it all.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
28 Oct 15
I think a lot depends on what type of blog you have. If you have blogs on wordpress or blogger or that type of thing, and there are many places where you can write your own thing, then I think it's probably okay to transfer your writing from bubblews to those blogs.If you're talking about sites that pay outright like mylot and hubpages, then I believe you need to rework the writing, leave it off line for a bit, if you're able to delete the bubbles and then post it. Most of them won't take work written and displayed elsewhere even if it's your own work.
If you open a site or many on blogjob, which uses wordpress themes, then I believe you can transfer what you want, and you may get paid for them eventually also.
