--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest"
> > <george.deforest@> wrote:
> > >
> > > hello, fairfield friends and TMers all over.
> > > i have created a Maharishi page on MySpace
> > > (tribute pages are common over there)
> > > tell me what you think!
> > > and/or: join MS and add to friend list!
> > > ~ http://www.myspace.com/26622618 ~
> > > ps - i dont visit Fairfield Life much anymore,
> > > because i'm addicted to MySpace, LOL
> > > peace, george (dardura108)
> >
> > I've never been to MySpace, and I'm sure
> > it's fun, but just as an advisory, you
> > should probably look into the agreement
> > you signed to join up before posting any-
> > thing there you might later want to publish
> > yourself. The "fine print" says that MySpace
> > (that is, Rupert Murdoch) owns the rights
> > to anything posted there.
>
> No, it doesn't.
Good to hear. The agreement you cite below has no
relationship to the one quoted extensively in the
articles that appeared in the press about this a
few months ago. It is my guess that MySpace bowed
to pressure and rewrote its license agreement.
> From MySpace.com's Terms of Service:
>
> Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com.
>
> MySpace.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files,
> images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or
> any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the
> MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services,
> you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you
> continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose.
> By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the
> MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com a limited license
> to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and
> distribute such Content solely on and through the MySpace Services.
>
> Without this license, MySpace.com would be unable to provide the
> MySpace Services. For example, without the right to modify Member
> Content, MySpace.com would not be able to digitally compress music
> files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy
> technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform
> Member Content, MySpace.com could not allow Users to listen to music
> posted by Members.
>
> The license you grant to MySpace.com is non-exclusive (meaning you
> are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to
> MySpace.com), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that MySpace.com
> is not required to pay you for the use on the MySpace Services of the
> Content that you post), sublicensable (so that MySpace.com is able to
> use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content
> delivery networks to provide the MySpace Services), and worldwide
> (because the Internet and the MySpace Services are global in reach).
>
> This license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from
> the MySpace Services. The license does not grant MySpace.com the
> right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant MySpace.com
> the right to distribute your Content outside of the MySpace Services.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/r3fm2
>
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