Thank you :)
It’s a fine line to walk, right? I mean, write something, edit it, do all the research and you are proud of it. You want to share it with like minded people or use it to open the odd eye here and there. Yet you have to respect the venue and the owner of it, while also respecting your own rights as the creator of this limping bit of prose.
I would like the option to excerpt things I want to keep copyright on - initial ideas that may eventually become a column or chapter in a book. I’ve had ideas stolen from me in the past, and that hurts, massively. They may be deformed children, but they are mine.
Does posting to a public blog versus posting it to Free Republic provide any protection at all from others taking and using it?
I understand what you are trying to do, but I don’t understand how it provides any difference.
You happen to be a FReeper that has a blog. Usually it’s the reverse, bloggers use FR to drive traffic to their site. Since FR is a user supported site it’s unfair that we are used to advertise for someone else. This is a very different scenario than a Freeper who also has a blog. Most bloggers are not part of our community and they simply use FR as a vehicle for hits.