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Re: Important Geocities Info for anyone who uses them
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 3 Jul 1999 18:03:46 GMT
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CMASI@CMASIstopspam.CHEM.TULANE.EDU
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Wow, this is very different statement that the one orgininal posted here.
Ed Jones wrote:
> 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 Yahoo!
> GeoCities site. We'd like to clarify our intentions.
>
> Yahoo! does not claim ownership of the content on your site. We never have.
>
> One of the terms in the Yahoo! Terms of Service grants us the license (in other
> words, gives us your consent) to use the content on your GeoCities site. We ask
> for this license to do the job of serving your pages to the world, but Yahoo!
> agrees to the following rules with respect to the content on your GeoCities
> site:
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> You license your content to Yahoo! so that we can display the content on
> your GeoCities site and promote the Yahoo! GeoCities services. The license
> exists for as long as you continue to be a Yahoo! GeoCities homesteader, no
> longer.
>
> Yahoo! has the right to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and create
> derivative works of your content only for the purpose of hosting your GeoCities
> site and providing and promoting the Yahoo! GeoCities service.
>
> Some people have asked if under these rules Yahoo! can do things like
> publish a book or make a movie using your Yahoo! GeoCities homepage content. We
> cannot.
>
> We intend for these rules to be legally binding on Yahoo!. And, as the
> lawyers say, to the extent that any of these rules conflict with or modify the
> Yahoo! Terms of Service, these rules will prevail.
>
> Folks, please know that we've built our network of services and tools by
> committing ourselves to our users. Starting in the early days of the Web with
> the Yahoo! directory, we've always made it our job to respond to your needs. We
> understand that we owe any success to you. We have no intention of violating
> the trust that we've built with you over the years.
>
> We're blessed to be working in an industry in which, on a daily basis, we hear
> the good and the bad directly from people like you. We listen when you talk to
> us. The recent merger of Yahoo! and GeoCities does not (and will not) change
> that.
>
> We understand your recent concerns, but there are some very basic and important
> reasons why an online company such as Yahoo! asks for such a license.
>
> For starters, we use many computers to serve to the world the millions of
> GeoCities home pages. In order to display your pages quickly and not lose any
> of your content (say, in a computer crash), we often need to copy your files
> onto more than one computer. Very simply, the license assures that we can do
> this.
>
> In addition, if we choose to promote your page on the top of Yahoo! GeoCities,
> or anywhere else on the Yahoo! network (even, for example, in a marketing
> promotion of Yahoo!'s many services), we need to reproduce the content. Again,
> the license assures that we can do this.
>
> There are many times when we use other companies to help us serve web pages on
> our global network. Sometimes information is changed as it is served to the
> world. For example, if your page contains images in JPEG format and the other
> company's service uses GIF format, your images may need to be adapted to fit
> in.
>
> These are just a few reasons. Also keep in mind that the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms
> of Service (which have been standard on the Yahoo! network) are very similar to
> the terms of service of many major Web sites and online services, including
> other home page providers.
>
> We feel the recent merger of Yahoo! and GeoCities will provide many exciting
> opportunities for our users, but if you'd rather not keep your home page with
> us we, obviously, will respect your wishes.
>
> Follow this link and we will remove your home page and account as soon as
> possible.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> The Yahoo! Team
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| (...) 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)
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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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