I know ADT has a little disclaimer: here it is

*By submitting your review to ADT you agree to assign an exclusive transferable copyright to ADT. You assign all copyrights for your review and all reviews become property of ADT.com which may edit, alter, retransmit, transfer or use any way it sees fit. There is no financial compensation for submitting reviews and submitting a review does not guarantee that it will be published.


So my point is when they sell the business I bet the review content they have will account for 50% of the sale. we are talking over a million dollars here. they have 5500 reviews that they did not write or we're part of the creative process in. I don't know if a 4 line disclaimer can cut it. The reviewer has not signed a thing.

The Village People have a song called "Y.M.C.A." and it is played everyday on different radio stations. Every time it gets played it makes money on royalties. it might only be 16 cents every time, but they still have to pay that to the owner of the song.


This reminds me of all the blues musicians who got their songs ripped off by the white man in the 1950's. If they ever sell ADT they will have to pay something to every reviewer and their reviews. They cannot have a 5 line disclaimer on a site and expect that to be binding in a court of law.

More to come on this