Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 4:18 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: OT: GeoCities users take note >No one in their right mind should agree to these terms. LUGgers... get the >hell off of Geocities/Yahoo! > >Jim I just had the following comment from another list regarding the original statement which said that "Personally, we, as a family, are pulling all of our work from Geocities". " .....good luck - that's another problem people have had when they tried to do just that - you can't even get to your pages to change or delete them without agreeing to the new policy !!!!! " Sounds to me that Geocities might not be the place to hang up one's photos! jh > > >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 >> >> >> > >