Merry Christmas from LJ?

[branchandroot]

So, um, why is there suddenly a copyright notice on the bottom of every site-schemed lj page, including pages of user content, declaring copyright of LiveJournal? I can see why it would appear on site pages, but to put it on user content pages is, um, blatantly inaccurate.

Now with extra fail for the holiday season?

Comments

[mitsuhachi.insanejournal.com]

...um, wtf?

[branchandroot]

Rather, yes.

[mitsuhachi.insanejournal.com]

Is anyone talking about this? You'd think people'd be rather annoyed to see LJ claiming ownership of their work...

[branchandroot]

Not that I've seen, yet, no. It isn't real obvious, and it seems to have been done (once again) over a holiday when people have other things they're doing.

[jimhines.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Hm ... I'm not seeing a copyright notice. Where exactly are you finding it? That could be a serious problem, especially since I post excerpts and such on my LJ.

[branchandroot]

If you look at a journal entry that doesn't have a journal style--an entry that's in the default site style, all blue and white, at the bottom, under the menu, is a copyright LJ notice. This seems likely to be one of those stupid design oversights, but perhaps a bit more legally problematic than most.

[adevyish.insanejournal.com]

It's not that difficult to program exceptions, LJ :/

I suppose the best response is to slap a conflicting copyright notice at the end of all entries.

[branchandroot]

*snorts* You'd think not. I suspect they just didn't think at all.

If no one has mentioned this on 07refugees by Monday, I may, just to get the ball rolling.