User content provisions

Can I extract the provisions in the blog T&Cs from www.website-contracts.co.uk relating to user content and put them in a separate document (a comments policy) whilst changing references to “your content” to “your comments”?

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Alasdair Taylor's Answer

The legal documents are usually the least interesting part of a website, and in general I try to keep the numbers of legal documents to a minimum. 

Nonetheless, there’s no particular reason why not you cannot put the user content provisions in a separate comments policy document. However:

(i) users should be asked to give their express acceptance of the new policy (as well as the T&Cs);

(ii) you should amend the entire agreement clause in the T&Cs so that it references the new policy; and

(iii) you will need to renumber the document and change cross-references as appropriate.

Changing “your content” to “your comments” may be sensible where blog comments are the only user-generated content. However, if you introduce new user-generated content features in future then you may need to switch back to more generic wording.

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