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Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:10:08 GMT
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LORDINSANITY@USAnomorespam.NET
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To anyone who has a webpage on geocites like I did. Be advised that now
Yahoo owns them and they have changed their Terms of Service thusly:
8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
Yahoo does not own Content you submit, unless we
specifically tell you
otherwise before you submit it. You license the
Content to Yahoo as set forth
below for the purpose of displaying and distributing
such Content on our
network of properties and for the promotion and
marketing of our services. By
submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you
automatically grant, or warrant
that the owner of such Content has expressly granted,
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,
distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole
or part) worldwide
and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form,
media, or technology now
known or later developed. You acknowledge that Yahoo
does not pre-screen
Content, but that Yahoo and its designees shall have
the right (but not the
obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse, edit,
move or remove any Content
that is publicly available via the Service. Without
limiting the foregoing, Yahoo
and its designees shall have the right to remove any
Content that violates the
TOS or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you
must evaluate, and bear
all risks associated with, the use of any Content,
including any reliance on the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content.
In this regard, you
acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content
created by Yahoo or
submitted to Yahoo, including without limitation
information in Yahoo! Message
Boards, Yahoo! Clubs, and in all other parts of the
Service.
The say they can use your copyrighted material for anything they want
and yet also state:
23. COPYRIGHTS and COPYRIGHT AGENTS
Yahoo respects the intellectual property of others,
and we ask our users to do
the same. If you believe that your work has been
copied in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, please provide
Yahoo's Copyright Agent the
following information:
1.an electronic or physical signature of the person
authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2.a description of the copyrighted work that you
claim has been infringed;
3.a description of where the material that you claim
is infringing is located
on the site;
4.your address, telephone number, and email address;
5.a statement by you that you have a good faith
belief that the disputed use
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its
agent, or the law;
6.a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury,
that the above
information in your Notice is accurate and that
you are the copyright
owner or authorized to act on the copyright
owner's behalf.
Yahoo's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of
copyright infringement on its
site is Jill Richardson who can be reached as follows:
By mail:
Jill Richardson
Copyright Agent
c/o Yahoo! Inc.
3420 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 94024
By phone:(408) 530-5080
By email: copyright@yahoo-inc.com
I suggest emailing the copyright Agent and letting her know that you no
longer wish to support a contradicting stance on your legal right to
control your copyrighted material.
Here is the Terms of Service agreement in total
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
--
-Lord Insanity
"A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men"
Visit me at: http://members.tripod.com/~LordInsanity
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
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| (...) Does this mean that material submitted to Geocities before they were bought out by Yahoo! is subject to the same interpretation? I certainly didn't submit my works to Yahoo!... (...) I personally have no stance here, as I published my works in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
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| The following now appears as an Important Message on the first page of the Memebrs Screen: Dear Homesteaders, We've heard your concerns about the Yahoo! Terms of Service, especially the section of the Terms regarding content that you include on your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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