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

[Cesare Marilungo]

Lee A. Azzarello wrote:

>----- Rob <lau at kudla.org> wrote:
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>>On Wed May 3 2006 15:41, Brett McCoy wrote:
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>>>(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
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>>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.
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>You missed the part about sublicense:
>"(with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees)"
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>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"
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>-lee
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Oh my gosh! :-P

c.
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