On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> The current Flickr/Yahoo terms & conditions have very specific rules > pertaining to Yahoo Groups and to audio/video/images. The original > Flickr terms and conditions were a lot more like section (c) of the > current ones, giving Flickr a perpetual irrevocable, sublicensable > right to do what it liked with your intellectual property, including > the creation of derived works for any purpose and on any medium. > > While the license looked as though it was just boilerplate written > by lawyers to let Flickr create thumbnails, screenshots, etc., > that's not what it said. OK, thanks, but was there any reason to believe that they crafted it maliciously, instead of it being a CYA approach? You need to be able to create derivative works to create thumbnails, etc. You may include an "any medium" clause, because you're backing on magnetic, optical, and stone-tablet media, and want to make sure you're covered when the holographic storage arrays come out. I don't disagree that it was probably overreaching, relative to their actual needs, but I tend to attribute that to lawyers' CYA tendencies, rather than jump to the conclusion that they're moving into the stock photo business and keeping all the money. Mark Roberts had a good recent blog post on this very topic. In other words, it comes across to me as a misstep which they subsequently remedied; I have trouble connecting it to the intensity of reactions that some here have expressed. -- 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.
