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1. Micro Persuasion
   

   January 18th, 2007 at 6:08 am

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1. Robin Hamman
   

   January 16th, 2007 at 6:37 am

   I was initially enthusiastic about blogburst myself but was set straight by a commenter who posted a link to this:

   http://www.medgadget.com/archi.....urs_1.html

   Apparently, blogburst’s terms and conditions amount to a rights grab - here’s an excerpt from the blogburst terms and conditions, as quoted in the post I’ve linked to above:

   … you grant to Pluck and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to reproduce, distribute, make derivative works of, perform, display, disclose, and otherwise dispose of the Work (and derivative works thereof) for the purposes of (a) modifying the Work without substantially changing its original meaning, and (b) distributing the Work (and derivative works thereof) to Publisher electronic web sites or corresponding printed editions, whether now known or hereafter devised.

2. Todd Zeigler
   

   January 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   Robin,

   Great point. I noticed how onerous their contract is when I signed up. I will take a closer look at it. For us though, the benefit of exposing more people to our content outweighs the copyright concerns. Others will legitimately reach the conclusion to stay far away from BlogBurst given the issues you describe.

3. Eric Newman
   

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:05 am

   I encourage you to look at the BlogBurst contributor agreement in its current state. We changed it considerably in Q3 to remove a number of the onerous requirements after hearing feedback from a number of bloggers. You can read more about it here

   If you still feel there are issues, please let us know. We are constantly re-evaluating the offering/agreements/etc to make this a successful service for our blogger and publisher partners
   -Eric Newman, Pluck (BlogBurst)