Wordpress blogs and copyright issues

hypnotaste

When I post something on Wordpress, does Wordpress gain the copyright to it? I've been invited to contribute to a popular blog on gender issues, and I want to basically adapt something that I wrote one time on Wordpress (I eventually took the post down because I didn't feel like blogging anymore), but I want to expand on that blog post. Would there be any legal issues you guys can think of associated with taking something I wrote for my own short-lived and anonymous Wordpress blog, altering the post significantly, and then posting it on a popular blog? I don't think money is involved (don't think this blog pays), but I dunno if that would make any difference.

Also, I doubt this blog even got a single hit, though I haven't checked the analytics in awhile.

I ask primarily because Facebook and, recently, NeoGAF (funnily enough) have some pretty insidious copyright clauses in their terms of use, if I'm not mistaken. I really hope I haven't already screwed myself here by writing on that Wordpress site.

wmelon

Part 8 from the Wordpress terms of service
Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Automattic to you any Automattic or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Automattic. Automattic, WordPress, WordPress.com, the WordPress.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with WordPress.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic or Automattic’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Automattic or third-party trademarks.
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

Essee

I'm reasonably certain that part actually relates to whether a poster on Wordpress can use any of WORDPRESS's intellectual content, not whether Wordpress can use any of the POSTER's content. Maybe I'm misreading it. Obviously, reading the ToS is the way to find out whether the ToS contains anything saying they own your content... I can't read through that at the moment because I'm just taking a quick break from studying, but maybe later today I can flip through those ToS if nobody beats me to it.

wmelon

Here's another relevant section from Part 2 of the TOS

By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

hypnotaste

Huh, am I misreading that last one? It looks as though the rights are non-exclusive, meaning I can post it wherever else I want.

wmelon

Looks that way to me as well. It also looks like they give up their license if you remove the content from their site.