[Leica] FW: Yahoo backs away from we-own-your-Geocities-web-site rules

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

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> Sent: June 30, 1999 6:41 PM
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> Subject: Yahoo backs away from we-own-your-Geocities-web-site rules
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> >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:43:08 -0400
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> >From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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> >http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20518.html
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> >                      Yahoo: Your Homestead's Your Own
> >                      by Declan McCullagh
> >
> >                      4:30 p.m.  30.Jun.99.PDT
> >                      In response to a boycott and criticism
> >                      from outraged customers, Yahoo late
> >                      Wednesday abandoned rules that had
> >                      given it eternal ownership of all Geocities
> >                      Web sites.
> >
> >                      "We're seeing how we can clarify our
> >                      intentions, given the recent outcry," said
> >                      Tim Brady, Yahoo vice president of
> >                      production.
> >
> >                      [...]
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> >http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20472.html
> >
> >                      Yahoo: Your House Is My House
> >                      by Declan McCullagh
> >
> >                      3:00 a.m.  29.Jun.99.PDT
> >                      If you're a GeoCities homesteader, be
> >                      warned: Your Web site is no longer your
> >                      own.
> >
> >                      Yahoo, which launched its
> >                      Yahoo-GeoCities site Monday, says it
> >                      owns all Web pages, articles, and images
> >                      on member sites and has "irrevocable"
> >                      rights to them for all time.
> >
> >                      [...]
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