Re: Something Scary for you Geocities Site Owners...

Thatotherguy wrote:

> First, since SJ only exists on the web and with us now I'd say this is
> *very* on topic (but the list admin may disagree).

	Given Leroy started this thread himself, I wouldn't worry about that:)

Nicole A. wrote:
>
> >8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
> >By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or
> >warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the
> >royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully
> >sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
> >translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display
> >such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in
> >other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
>
> And now Xoom's
>
> You grant to XOOM.com and its affiliates a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
> nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy, modify, transmit,
> distribute, and publicly perform or display the submitted pages or other content
> for the purposes of displaying such information on XOOM.com's sites and for the
> promotion and marketing of XOOM.com's services.
>
> Sounds alot like Yahoo's TOS. Well anyone who is providing you free web space is
> most likely going to have something basicly like this.

	Hehe, gotta say it (in childish voice): "I TOLD you sooo!!!"  :)
Really, I don't think this is an overly huge problem.  The real danger
is for someone who makes it *BIG* and said sites freely distrubute
his/her early material freely.  Honestly, I highly doubt they honestly
care about little SJ sites like ours such that they're going to steal
our stuff right out from under us.  They're more interested in stuff
like pics of future Brad Pitts, stories by budding Steven Kings, etc.
They want stuff that will get them thousands/millions of hits.  Nor are
they going to claim TSR's logo; they cannot, UNDER ANY REASON, claim
ANYTHING already claimed by another company; I'd love to see them try.
They'd lose so badly in court it'd be funny.  They may be able to *use*
the TSR netlogos like the rest of us, but they cannot claim them.  That
would be theft, period.
	BTW, the way I'm reading this is that they are not claiming actual
ownership of the material in question; they're claiming the right to
copy and display the material in question royalty-free.  So long as none
of us are going to try to start a business or sell our stuff to TSR, I
don't really see the problem.  <*shrug*>
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