↪ 2014-10-03 Fri 22:18, Joey Day <[email protected]>: > https://www.quora.com/about/tos > > *“You retain ownership of all Content you submit, post, display, or > otherwise make available on the Service.”* > > This is good. :-)
Hi Joey,
This is an usual trick that misleads readers. For some context on
this issue:
“What is yours stays yours”: Oh, really?
http://blog.tosdr.org/posts/tosdr-in-action-owned/
The Quora ToS are actually *bad* on this very issue. Indeed, if
you go on to read after:
"Content" means any information, text, graphics, or other
materials uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the
Service. You retain ownership of all Content you submit,
post, display, or otherwise make available on the Service.
Your License to Quora
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through
the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to
use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish,
transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and
all media or distribution methods (now known or later
developed).
You agree that this license includes the right for other
users of the Service to modify your Content, and for Quora
to make your Content available to others for the
publication, distribution, syndication, or broadcast of
such Content on other media and services, subject to our
terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional
uses by Quora or others may be made with no compensation
paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit,
post, transmit or otherwise make available through the
Service.
etc.
One of the most worrying part of this is the right to sublicense
and the absence of limitations on the purpose of that copyright
license.
More analysis on copyright licenses' scopes:
http://tosdr.org/topics.html#copyright-scope
I hope it helps,
Hugo
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