Imma start writing reviews again

by Alex

Years ago I stopped writing reviews on sites like amazon.com because their terms of service basically gave them my work. Sure, I wrote reviews for works by friends that I thought deserved some publicity, and for particularly superb things I’d throw a review out there as a way to say thanks for people’s work. But overall I felt like I was doing unpaid work for a company — which might even have been ok if their appropriation of my writing didn’t take the creepy form of piracy via small print.

I’m still never going to give Facebook more data than I absolutely need to in order to communicate with my friends. But I recently reread the Amazon and iTunes TOS and I see that both now give themselves a nonexclusive license to your work, rather than just taking your copyright (as it use to iirc). I can live with that.

So In My Copious Free Time I might be able to squeeze out a recommendation or two… maybe… that’s the plan anyway…