Thank you very much for the informative reply. I do freelance my work and thus receive payment for my articles and, to date, still suffer under the clause “excerpt only” for crossposts to my blog, but in this situation cannot crosspost due to the nature of my existing contract, thus my question.
As a strong conservative and monthly donor I am committed to seeing the information posted to this site reach as many conservatives as possible and honestly meant it as a serious question when posed to humblegunner. I wrote for Horowitz’s NewsReal until the site closed and copied some of my articles in entirety to my blog thereafter not knowing how long the articles will remain available, but my current position doesn’t offer that luxury. I will take your points into consideration the next time I become contractually obligated to an online source. Thank you, again!
Just to be clear for Callisto's benefit (Humblegunner knows this), I speak only for myself. I have no official or even unofficial role on Free Republic — in fact, although I've been reading for years, I haven't posted much until 2009 and rarely commented until the last couple of months.
My sole goal in commenting is to explain the law on the ownership of copyrighted “works done for hire” since not following that law could result in Free Republic getting sued. It probably wouldn't happen, but nobody could have expected the “out of the blue” Righthaven lawsuit, either, especially coming from a fairly conservative newspaper.
One of the biggest problems with the rise of the internet is that lots of people who never had a reason to know the details of copyright and libel law are now at risk of learning those details the hard way.
Well that explains why their operatives aren't spamming us any more.
No offense, but those mooks (the two or three operatives that posted here)
were the very worst sort of pimps. Post and run types with profiles
written in the third person, as if to imply elitism. Pimp trash really.
Toward the end, the desperation for hits became obvious.
Apparent every blogger they had was given a formula: Lists.
"The top ten reasons that _____________________________"
Each individual point was made on a separate page, resulting
in a ten fold increase in hits.. if readers could be enticed
to muddle through the whole mess. Obvious and desperate.
Those operatives did not wish to be a part of the Free Republic
community, nor to interact. They were here to peddle excerpted
writing for hits and for no other reason. I'm glad they are gone.
While I agree that I and others might have a bit of a hair trigger
on the issue and that I may at times be mistaken in my assignment of motivation,
those Horopimps were using Free Republic as a hit farm. No doubt.