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

[Folderol]

On Wed, 03 May 2006 15:41:17 -0400
Brett McCoy <idragosani at chapelperilous.net> wrote:

> It looks like (as of May 1), that MySpace is claiming license to 
> redistribute any content on their site, but the license goes away after 
> you remove the content:
> 
> "By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, 
> files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or 
> any other materials (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.

How can anyone ever possibly track this sort of thing?

> This 
> license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the 
> Services.

This is the exact reverse of what it used to say, so maybe they've
already had legal beagles breathing down their necks. 

> You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted 
> by you on or through the Services or otherwise have the right to grant 
> the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your 
> Content on or through the Services does not violate the privacy rights, 
> publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any 
> person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies 
> owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through 
> the Services."
> 
> Yikes

Exactly! Even with the change above it's still a horrendous piece of
spagetti 

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