Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fellow LeicaPhiles.. I have a domainname of creativephoto.com Im thinking of moving my linux server to a co-location facility which will run me about 300.00 a month. Id like to know how many of you would be interested in putting your web page up on my web server and how many would be willing to donate a moderate amount of money to help pay for the co-location. The machine is a P166 with 64megs of ram running linux. The co-lo has multiple T1s and gets very low usage right now. If I implement this the first few weeks there would be a 100mb filesize limit until I get a larger drive. the urls for your web pages would be something like http://www.creativephoto.com/yourname There won't be any porn on the server (ie commercial porn) other than that I don't care what sorts of photos you put up there. No annowing ads or popups... just photography. - -Mark Cohen On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Bill wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:33:12 -0700 > From: Bill <ohlen@lightspeed.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] OT: GeoCities users take note > > 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 > > > >