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Help with Free Webspace TOS agreements and Copyrights
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lugnet.publish
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Sat, 25 Dec 1999 09:34:09 GMT
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Hey Y'all:
Well, I am trying to get together a largish lego site and am looking for free
space for it. I have been to both Xoom and Geocities and read their TOS
statements. Does anyone have anything interesting to say about the manner in
which they claim the right to use the work published on their sites? I am
refering to these statement's:
Yahoo/Geocities --
"Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo
GeoCities Site. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on your Yahoo
GeoCities Site, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-
exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely
for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities
Site on Yahoo's Internet properties. This license exists only for as long as
you continue to be a Yahoo GeoCities homesteader and shall be terminated at
the time your Yahoo GeoCities Site is terminated."
Xoom --
"You grant to XOOM.com and its affiliates a royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy,
modify, transmit, distribute, and publicly perform or display the submitted
pages or other content for the purposes of displaying such information on
XOOM.com's sites and for the promotion and marketing of XOOM.com's services.
XOOM.com disclaims ownership of member sites and will not resell or otherwise
convey these rights to any third party."
Seems like all they want is to be able to promote the services they provide by
using one's published material as long as one is a member. I guess I am
cynical enough to worry that they somehow also want/have the right to publish
the work in a more copyright abusive manner. For example in a book or
something, like "Best Of Yahoo" or "Best of Xoom." On its face it looks like
they could do this. But could they also just publish a book on the lego sites
they host and use my material? See what I mean? Has this ever happened?
Are these deals with the devil?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-- Richard
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