Re: [linux-audio-user] The MySpace terms for content

On Wed May 3 2006 15:41, Brett McCoy wrote: I'm no lawyer, but to me it seems that all those rights you're giving them only applies to Myspace itself ("to use, ... and distribute such Content on and through the Services.") Regardless, I don't think you're giving them the right to sell it on CD or use it in a soundtrack, or a commercial (unless it's airing on Myspace itself.) There's no "including but not limited to", just "on and through the Services". But millions have been lost through the presence or absence of a comma, so who knows. I also don't see where this agreement allows them to "claim copyright on EVERYTHING posted, including all text, pictures and music" as Folderol suggested, and it doesn't appear that "This applies even after you take down the material yourself". My lay interpretation of this agreement is, "You agree not to sue us for sharing the stuff you've uploaded, or at least not before you delete it. You promise you're legally allowed to upload it under these terms in the first place and if it turns out you're not, you promise to pay the offended parties whatever they're due and not try to stick us with it." I don't think that's incompatible with any free/open content licenses, nor at all draconian. If I were foolish enough to try to start a social music hosting site, I'd certainly have words to that effect in my signup agreement to cover my own ass. Not that I'm fond of Myspace or anything.... at all... but I don't think the sky is falling yet, either. Is the above agreement even any worse than the one in place before Murdoch came into the picture? Rob