 | | Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) 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
|
|
here is yesterday's headline from cnet: Yahoo relents on GeoCities terms (URL) read down into the article, and one user claim "there is no substantive change". check out the boycott site at: (URL) don't have to convince me to boycott them- I usually (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) Well, actually they say that to post stuff on Yahoo! you have to turn over your copyrights to us forever...don't they? (...) I published my creations on the internet with the expectation (read hope) that someone would like them enough to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) Yuck. And other four-letter words. (...) Actually, I just had a 180-degree turn in my point of view, with screeching tires. Yahoo sucks, Geocities sold out, and my rights are on the line here. Not to mention the LUGNET FAQ items I've compiled (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) I am not a lawyer, but I don't think so. As I read it, you grant them a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable right to do whatever they please with your stuff. That's something quite different from turning over (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) Yes, this is all true, but you missed the part about they are allowed to make deriviatve(spelling?) works off of your stuff. To people like myself who like to make back story for things; Yahoo/Geocities could take that and licence the right to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
Wow, this is very different statement that the one orgininal posted here. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
(...) Yup I recieved the e-mail below as well. As I posted the original statement I now retract it. I was going off of what was written by another in a differnt news group. When I read the Terms of Service it seemed to support this so I accepted the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
|
|
Mike, I was faulting your original post; I was noting the change in attitude from Geo-Cities. I think you and others who read the GeoCites statement prompted Geo-Cities to make a much needed clarification/change. Thanks, Chris (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | geocities cleans up (Re: Important Geocities Info)
|
|
i don't remember seeing anyone post this, so for info on the end of the geocities saga see this site: (URL) g (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
|
