"Who owns your comments?" Without doubt, I own my comments... - Czar

The real question is, who owns the BLOG POSTS about who owns the comments... yeah???? amirite?!?! - Bwana

@Bwana: Or rather, who owns the FriendFeed comments about the blog posts about who owns the comments ;-) - Benedikt Koehler

All my comments belong to the public domain. Steal them, reuse them, make money off of them, do whatever you want. - Robert Scoble

All your comments are belong to us. All kidding aside. I think comments are essentially public domain. - AJ Kohn

i care more about who owns the people who make the comments. i want those - @baratunde

Creative works belong to the creator. (c) William Beem 2008 - William Beem

I'm going to be putting a disclaimer on my blog to let readers know that all comments on my blog will NOT be owned by me. - Shey

Some sort of Creative Commons might be necessary? - CannonGod from twhirl

I hereby release all of my comments to the public "let me know if you get a chance" domain: do whatever you want with them, but if you got a sec, shoot me an email if you do anything cool with them. - Mark Trapp

Isn't it a matter of size / original contribution? But then again if a comment has about 4000 words, it probably should be published somewhere else. - Benedikt Koehler

isn't the notion of comment ownership part of the Disqus question? - TimTheFoolMan from twhirl

why are comments being considered as "creative" ? - Steven Hodson

I own my comments but I am not responsible for them - Charlie Anzman

@TimTheFoolMan rather attribution than ownership, I would say. - Benedikt Koehler

Steven asks a good question -- I wouldn't think to use CC for comments. - Shey

@Tim I've asked that before but I haven't gotten any responses. Disqus states comments made on their system are owned by the blogger. How can one claim otherwise? - Shey

Read this for an overview of data ownership - http://sites.google.com/a... feedalizr - Keith Teare