Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Leica Users, I know that several of us have pages at Geocities. With the recent acquisition of Geocities by Yahoo, there has been a (to me) significant change in the agreement for service. As I read the new agreement, it appears that by posting on the Geocities pages, I am giving up my copyright to any materials I have on their server. News stories concerning the changes can be found at: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,1087,10_147231,00.html this was posted TODAY, July 29, 1999 The new agreement can be found at http://cos.yahoo.com/info/terms Pay particular attention to paragraph 8 of the agreement, "Contents Submitted to Yahoo." Basically you appear to be granting Yahoo the royalty-free perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from....your work. Personally, we, as a family, are pulling all of our work from Geocities. You might look at the agreement at tripod.com where Tripod (Lycos) rights are specifically limited. I am not an attorney and am not sure that I am reading the Geocities agreement correctly, but I, on the face of it, find it to be unacceptable. Regards, Bill Larsen ohlen@lightspeed.net