Health bloggers get conned by Wellsphere

Up to 1700 bloggers signed away the intellectual propert rights to their blogs to Wellsphere. They were slipped up by the following clause in the Ts and Cs:

…All Website Materials, including any intellectual property rights in such Website Materials, are the property of Wellsphere, its affiliates, licensors, or the designated owners, and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. You should assume that everything you see on this Website is copyrighted unless otherwise noted, and may not be used without our written permission except as provided in these Terms…

A great blog on the subject is on betterhealth, which includes some of the letters that Geoff Rutledge, a physician working for wellsphere, sent to bloggers.

1700 bloggers!! Geoff was a busy man.