This is what I sent to this law student in the US and after reading what I
had wrote he realised that maybe he shouldn't have forwarded this "spam
mail" (well I see it as spam anyway after getting it in two diffrent
mailing lists - it's bound to pop up in the Arachne list soon as well). It
just ain't gonna work for them in a court of law, so why worry?
>When Yahoo! bought out Geocities, they changed the user agreements and added
>in a paragraph
> that said they owned a "royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive
>and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
>publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and
>display" any content you submitted to them in the form of a web page.
>Basically, they, not you, owned the web page you made-- and they could do
>what they wanted with the content.
That is not an option in those countries where there are any laws at all. I
don't know how it is for you americans (assuming you're from the US). But
it's very unlogical that you could ever loose any of your rights. I mean,
signing a paper stating "You can kill me" doesn't make that a legal option
for someone. Same thing with this, whoever have created it still holds the
copyright (no matter what the other part claims) - and can sue whoever uses
it.
//Bernie
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