Doug Franklin wrote: > Howdy, folks, > > We've had several discussions over the years about the terms of use of > various web sites and services. Well, I've been planning to put > together a very short run of a small photo book from my recent trip to > Bulgaria. I only plan a run of maybe 30 because they're for gifts to > people over there and family here. So I've been looking at self > publishing web sites like Lulu and Blurb and such. > > A friend of mine recently got involved with a multi-level marketing > company called Creative Memories. Their focus is more on "electronic > scrapbooking", but they have a service that would be appropriate for > what I'm doing. It's a little pricey, but I considered doing it through > them to help her out. > > <snip> > > Personally, I find this clause and the unofficial attitude quite > disturbing. Am I overreacting? >
Doug, My wife used to be a "consultant". We have had several photo books printed by CM. I forwarded your message to her for an opinion. She didn't remember seeing that in the TOS the last time she ordered from them and was rather surprised by it. So she's going to ask one of her consultant friends to call CM's consultant services for clarification. We both agreed that it leans way too far in CM's favor. Even Snapfish's TOS specifies that if they use your photos, they will only be used to promote Snapfish. If I were you I'd go with Blurb. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
