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Originally Posted by murraypaul
In almost all cases for comments people upload comments that are their own work.
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Unless they're linking and quoting a blog or news article. Sometimes they link to just the title, sometimes they quote a paragraph, sometimes they quote the entire article. That latter's not common here, but it is in many forums. And even quoting a couple of sentences had the
A.P. sending out C&Ds. Later, they decided they would "license" their content for linking on other sites--
$12.50 would let you quote 5-25 words. (They seem to have backed down, or at least, the actual license page is now gone.)
According to the new laws the media companies are trying to pass, nobody would have to prove infringement, or consider fair use--they'd be able to point at a quoted paragraph, insist that the site encourages infringement, and have it shut down.