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Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:57:19 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Sean Kenney writes:
> Rest assured, it's a standard legal disclaimer that you'll find on
> any site, from Lugnet to Amazon and everything in-between.
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 short, it's a medium of content creation and not simply a medium of
communication, and the user-supplied content is potentially of considerably
greater worth.
Of particular concern is the third-party clause. As written, your TOC gives you
the right to, for example, publish a "100 Cool LEGO Projects" book, or
grant/sell permission to another party to do so, and allows you to alter the
presentation of those projects, without consent or compensation. Also, and this
is the big problem that I have, most print publishers do not accept submissions
that were previously published, so even a magazine spread featuring something I
posted to MOCpages might prevent me from publishing it myself.
> I *did* have a clause in there that said that all content was property
> of the uploader,
I'd consider the other clauses of your TOC to make this addition essentially
wothless.
Don't get me wrong. I think MOCpages is really cool. It has a ton of features
and is nearly bug-free right from the start. Good work.
A.
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