Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: OT: GeoCities users take note
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:01:26 -0700

No one in their right mind should agree to these terms. LUGgers... get the
hell off of Geocities/Yahoo!

Jim


At 03:33 PM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>