I have just posted an EXTREMELY BASIC newbie question re payment (ref WordPress Canada). Let’s monitor the responses we see here, since we both seem to be “only getting our toes wet”.

As with yourself, I don’t like the intellectual property ownership/assignment issue either and would not want to put time in anything on those terms.

While Canadian law differs somewhat to U.S. law on ownership, that would not really make anything better.

While, in Canada, by legal default the copyright accrues to the creator, that does not stop any other from demanding assignment of the revenue as a condition of collaboration, so the rest is a moot point – no better than the U.S. scene in practice.

Cheers,

Bruce M.
QC Canada

Does anyone have a straightforward list of all the means of payment for services from WordPress? When I tried to find this out from the wordpress.ca site I got dragged through the shopping cart mill and never got an up-front direct answer.

This alone gives me cold feet. If a seller of anything does this up-front, I expect it will only get worse as things go on, and leave the site:-(

More specifically do they handle Interac online or debit?

I made the switch from Blogger to WordPress this year when I determined my wannabe foodie schtick just wasn’t working. I wanted something less confining, something that would help me grow. Through the help of a friend I paid for a year’s worth of hosting and bought the domain I am on now. Couldn’t be happier.

While my traffic still sucks (my fault) and I haven’t grown much more than what I had on the previous blog, I love the functionality a hell of a lot more. I can read my stats ON my dashboard without ever having to leave my site. Love that! Okay, I do use Google Analytics for a more in-depth report but stats on the dashboard definitely rule.

I used to be hardcore pro-Blogger. Now I [jokingly] sneer at Blogger blogs and wonder WTF I was thinking. Ahh. Crap. Now I’m becoming a blog snob. Uh…moving on now.

We’ll see what this year brings.