http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/03/myspace_terms/print.html
Murdoch wants teenagers'...
By Mark Ballard
Published Wednesday 3rd May 2006 11:32 GMT
Teenagers should beware of Murdoch-owned website MySpace.com snatching
their digital identities, child campaigners have warned.
Freechildsafeweb.com, which lobbies for the safe use of MySpace, said
small print in the new terms and conditions, introduced since the
acquisition of MySpace by News Corporation last year, could mean that
careless content posted by teenagers could come back to haunt them later
in life.
"If you post risque images as a teen and later move into professional
life, these images along with any comments, journals and
conversations can
be sold to the press and there is nothing you can do. It is worth
remembering, the owners of Myspace.com - News Corp - are the Press," an
unattributed article on Freechildsafeweb said yesterday.
Approximately 68m people use MySpace as a personal exhibition space and
networking club. Many of these would have originally agreed to terms and
conditions, (retained
(http://www.freechildsafeweb.com/MySpaceTerms_Cached.htm#PostingContent)
by Freechildsafeweb), that give the website non-exclusive rights to use
the material they display there, but only while they keep it there.
"This license will terminate at the time you remove such content from
the
website," the old terms read.
However, new terms (http://collect.myspace.com/misc/terms.html?z=1)
introduced after News Corp's acquisition of MySpace, extend the
website's
rights over any content their users upload.
They give MySpace "non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free" worldwide
license and sub-licensing rights "to use, copy, modify, adapt,
translate,
publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and
distribute" any matter posted by its users, including "messages, text,
files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or
any other materials".
"Content posted by you may remain on the MySpace.com servers after you
have removed the content from the services, and MySpace.com retains the
rights to those copies," it adds.
Paul Varney of Freechildsafeweb contacted The Register by email to
air his
concern:
"I want to bring this to the attention of the 65M+ (MySpace) users, as
many I feel are perhaps not aware of these very different terms,
especially band recordings, or young teens who post content that may
come
back to bite them in later years," he said.
MySpace was unavailable for comment.
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