I Joined Hubpages and Got a Shock

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de, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content for any purpose and in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you for any purpose.”</blockquote>They define User Content as: “comments, messages, photos, ratings, and other materials.”There is a distinction between User Content and Author Content, which relates to your stories and graphics, but it makes me uncomfortable for them to be sub-licencing any of my content, and it’s not entirely clear whether articles might be included in ‘other materials’ if it suited them. Even if articles aren’t included, I don’t particularly want my profile picture, comments or messages to be sub-licenced either!They can republish your User Content anywhere, any time, without compensation to you.My initial reaction was that what my friend thought was plagiarism, was actually sub-licencing. But that may be me leaping to conclusions. After all, it applies only to ‘User Content’, not ‘Author Content’.Have you tried writing on Hubpages? If so, what’

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Them sub-licencing my content sounds bad

I took a look at Hubpages a few weeks ago. It’s a bit like Medium. You can publish stories there and earn from views. I get the impression people don’t earn a lot, so wasn’t sure if it was worth my time, but I thought it was worth a look.

I’d already been warned that anything I put on Hubpages would probably be plagiarised. A regular writer there (also on Medium) said his entire stock of articles on Hubpages has been plagiarised.

So, I created an account, with a view to putting articles on there that I don’t care if they get plagiarised, as long as I earn something for my efforts.

What I hadn’t anticipated however, was a clause in the contract for sub-licencing without compensation. It’s the kind of clause I balk at, even when someone’s paying me good money for a piece of journalism. Straight from Hubpages terms of use:

“You grant Arena a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content for any purpose and in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you for any purpose.”

They define User Content as: “comments, messages, photos, ratings, and other materials.”

There is a distinction between User Content and Author Content, which relates to your stories and graphics, but it makes me uncomfortable for them to be sub-licencing any of my content, and it’s not entirely clear whether articles might be included in ‘other materials’ if it suited them. Even if articles aren’t included, I don’t particularly want my profile picture, comments or messages to be sub-licenced either!

They can republish your User Content anywhere, any time, without compensation to you.

My initial reaction was that what my friend thought was plagiarism, was actually sub-licencing. But that may be me leaping to conclusions. After all, it applies only to ‘User Content’, not ‘Author Content’.

Have you tried writing on Hubpages? If so, what’s your experience of the platform? Have I misunderstood this part of the licence? Is there a reason why they need to sub-licence my User Content?