has anyone ever had the problem that amazon reviews you wrote suddenly appear on other sites?
Just stumbled across a review for Bat 2 that sounded very familiar, and it actually was mine that I posted three years ago on amazon.de.
I did a quick search and actually found exactly the same text on 5 or 6 different online portals.
How can they do that without my permission? All articles mention my name as author, but still I've only posted it on amazon and never allowed it anyone else to publish it.

Can I do something about that?

It probably says somewhere in their t&cs they can do that. Amazon is such a huge beast they can do what they want pretty much.

It does. See the amazon.com T&Cs, specifically:

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.

Dave

so basically they made me do something for free I usually get paid for....great :roll:

Now if only you posted something here that was worth repeating 5 or 6 times that would be great :))

were in good company then :p

To be honest I thought that most places did that, included in the T&C's is a statement saying they can do whatever they want with your text or pics.

how did they make you do it???

hmm...interesting message left by the landlord

it's to clamy we need air con

We're getting air con at work tomorrow fingers crossed!! I drank a litre and a half of water today and didn't pee once cos i was sweating so much lol!!

been on the streets for over 8 hours no hats but lots & lots ice cold water

Thats not good Can you stay on the shady side of the street?

I'm so glad I only had to do two songs at tonight's charity event. It was WAAAAY too hot in that room. If I'd had to do 90 minutes, I'd have ended up with heat exhaustion :shock:

I f*cking hate rose bushes :evil: but alas, they're all dug up and binned :twisted:

mtv was just showing a documentary on Michael Jackson's life from around 2000, ending with the words 'I'm sure this wont be the last we've heard of him'.
They should actually check what they put on the air, to avoice a fauxpas like that.

we actually have ac in the office, but it's broken as some genius thought it was a good idea to have it running with all windows open :roll:

:(

How long are your shifts? And do you have body armour? I think you do a similar role to the people I do tech support for. Most of the time I envy the role - except today!

Just being outside for half an hour on my lunch break was far too hot ... and I am much happier in my air conditioned office (especially now my opposite has gone home for the day, and I can have the aircon turned onto full wack and blasting out towards the desks instead of towards the wall!

did I mention i have two days off? :))

warm

Tired :zzz: tired :zzz: tired :zzz: I need lots more coffee :coffee:

i dont remember james may on top gear in 99 lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDRA55U1YXQ

but sure enough... there he was

Mollie Sugden died today RIP

And Karl Malden!!