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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.

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.



Ahhh, the good old days... I remember back in 2002 when I was banished from ADT, having a similar discussion with the more combative owner of the pair about this topic. He thought it was okay to remove my pen name from my reviews and I pointed out the problems with him doing so, including their lack of "consideration" in their "contract" (which was changed well after the submissions by the way). I gave him the one time option of leaving my name on them to continue using the reviews which he declined.

As far as selling the website, which has been brought up a time or two in recent years, I wonder how much they'd have to pay my current publisher since they started off with an agreement to him for using their name long ago. Given the number of fanboy reviews, I don't think that part of the website would be worth very much these days and any decent programmer could cobble out a price search engine of equal or greater value if so motivated.

Otherwise, I've written under various names for a number of websites (including some positive reviews of JM product) but the question is a valid one and has been since the first reviews were "sold" in print magazines years before AVN was around so why should anything change when the controls are so much more lax thanks to the internet?
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