Blog Networks and Blog Ownership: Many of the issues I'm seeing authors and network owners struggling with revolve around ownership.
Who owns the blog, which party holds copyright, who has rights to take the content? [...]
This is a tricky issue - whoever retains ownership holds considerable power in any relationship. If the publisher owns the blog then they are able to sell it at any point - if the author owns it they are able to walk away from the relationship without warning , taking an income stream away from the network.