Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No one in their right mind should agree to these terms. LUGgers... get the hell off of Geocities/Yahoo! Jim At 03:33 PM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Leica Users, > >I know that several of us have pages at Geocities. With the recent >acquisition of Geocities by Yahoo, there has been a (to me) significant change >in the agreement for service. As I read the new agreement, it appears that by >posting on the Geocities pages, I am giving up my copyright to any materials I >have on their server. > >News stories concerning the changes can be found at: > >http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html >http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,1087,10_147231,00.html > >this was posted TODAY, July 29, 1999 > >The new agreement can be found at http://cos.yahoo.com/info/terms > >Pay particular attention to paragraph 8 of the agreement, "Contents Submitted >to Yahoo." Basically you appear to be granting 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....your work. > >Personally, we, as a family, are pulling all of our work from Geocities. You >might look at the agreement at tripod.com where Tripod (Lycos) rights are >specifically limited. > >I am not an attorney and am not sure that I am reading the Geocities agreement >correctly, but I, on the face of it, find it to be unacceptable. > >Regards, Bill Larsen >ohlen@lightspeed.net > > >