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Does anyone have an opinion on the "Conditions of use"; in particular, the following section? Reviews, user-created pages, and other content 4. We may reproduce your content. (URL) all the explicit language that removes restrictions on what MOCpages (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Amy: Please see this post ( (URL) ) for answers to your question. Rest assured, it's a standard legal disclaimer that you'll find on any site, from Lugnet to Amazon and everything in-between. (...) I *did* have a clause in there that said that (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) MOCpages is not like Lugnet or Amazon. It involves creative works potentially of significantly greater effort than a user of Lugnet would contribute there, or a reviewer on Amazon would contribute there, and it includes graphical content. In (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) It's more like geocities, and here are a few articles on Yahoo's attempt to use a cookie-cutter TOS for geocities that sounds a lot like yours... Infoworld: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) It's worse than I thought. In reading some submission guidelines I find that publishers expect exclusive rights, so having given that right to MOCpages I wouldn't even be able to publish things MOCpages or its successors never published. Amy (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) There's a whole issue of law that's going to be messy to resolve. Part of the problem is that IP law has not yet caught up with the internet. The result is that lawyers are forced to try and craft terms that properly allow your material to be (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) My understanding is that posting something to the web in ANY form constitutes publishing for the sake of this. Print publications will not pay full rates for previously-published material, if they accept it at all. If you're interested in (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I think "first North American serial rights" is the usual phrase. It still reserves the right to the author to publish it again later, but it should be previously unpublished. This is one reason I won't submit to Bricks Magazine: they don't (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I just deleted my account on MOCPages. I wasn't comfortable with that TOS. It's a shame, it looked like a nice site. I was about to donate but thought I'd best look over that TOS. (Since it didn't make me check a box agree'ing to it when I (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) You didn't, by any chance, read through the rest of this thread, did you? If you did, you should be aware that the specific reason for having the "right to distribute" clause in there is so you can't come back and sue them for royalties for (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Okay, but so what? The language is still overly broad. People can fairly be concerned with what may happen to content that they are providing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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