Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, I am not a lawyer, but the language below, taken from Yahoo's terms of service, seems pretty clear. Yahoo has the right to use the images for promotion of its service but not other use, the license is non-exclusive, and valid only so long as you continue to use the service. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Nathan > Yahoo does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for > inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make > available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant > Yahoo the following world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license(s), as > applicable: > > With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on > publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Groups, the > license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and > publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of > providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Club or Yahoo! Group to > which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists > only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the > Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes > such Content from the Service. > > With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make > available for inclusion on publicly accessible area of the Service other > than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, > reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such > Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content > was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as > you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will > terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from > the Service. > Steve Barbour wrote: > Good question Ernie and I don't know the answer to it. Possibly > lawyers and others on the list may know. If it's truly solely for > Yahoo promotion as it says, OK; I guess you have concern re sale > or use of images for other commercial reasons...a potential problem ? > Does this issue not come up regarding any web site with images? > anyone? > > Steve - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html