Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree...Steve >Steve, > >I am not a lawyer, but the language below, taken from Yahoo's terms of >service, >seems pretty clear. Yahoo has the right to use the images for promotion >of its >service but not other use, the license is non-exclusive, and valid only >so long as >you continue to use the service. Seems pretty reasonable to me. > >Nathan > >> Yahoo does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available >for >> inclusion on the Service. However, with >respect to Content you submit or make >> available for inclusion on publicly >accessible areas of the Service, you grant >> Yahoo the following world-wide, royalty >free and non-exclusive license(s), as >> applicable: >> >> With respect to Content you submit >or make available for inclusion on >> publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! >Clubs and Yahoo! Groups, the >> license to use, distribute, >reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and >> publicly display such Content on >the Service solely for the purposes of >> providing and promoting the >specific Yahoo! Club or Yahoo! Group to >> which such Content was submitted or >made available. This license exists >> only for as long as you elect to >continue to include such Content on the >> Service and will terminate at the >time you remove or Yahoo removes >> such Content from the Service. >> >> With respect to photos, graphics, >audio or video you submit or make >> available for inclusion on publicly >accessible area of the Service other >> than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, >the license to use, distribute, >> reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly >perform and publicly display such >> Content on the Service solely for >the purpose for which such Content >> was submitted or made available. >This license exists only for as long as >> you elect to continue to include >such Content on the Service and will >> terminate at the time you remove or >Yahoo removes such Content from >> the Service. >> >Steve Barbour wrote: > >> Good question Ernie and I don't know the answer to it. Possibly >> lawyers and others on the list may know. If it's truly solely for >> Yahoo promotion as it says, OK; I guess you have concern re sale >> or use of images for other commercial reasons...a potential problem ? >> Does this issue not come up regarding any web site with images? >> anyone? >> >> Steve > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Steve Barbour - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html