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

6 May 2006

----- Rob &lt;lau(a)kudla.org&gt; wrote:
...
  On Wed May 3 2006 15:41, Brett McCoy wrote:
  (collectively, "Content") on or through
the Services, you
 hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and
 royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense
 through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy,
 modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display,
 store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and
 through the Services. This license will terminate at the time
 you remove such Content from the Services. You represent and  
 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. 
You missed the part about sublicense:
"(with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees)"

MySpace just said they can steal your shit and use it for anything they want for fun and
profit. Let's rename it to "ourspace.com"

-lee

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