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

> > >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.

> 	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*>

Yahoo, though not Xoom, does claim the right to sub-license the material.
That's as good as owning it, except you can't charge royalties.

Hemlock