At 10:47 PM 14/12/2005, Chork the Jangler wrote:
quoted 2 lines but, the long and short of it is, as long as its up there they can use>but, the long and short of it is, as long as its up there they can use
>it for whatever they want without your permission
No, they can't. Read it again:
quoted 5 lines "By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you> > "By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you
> > hereby grant to MySpace.com the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide
> > license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the
> > Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such
> > Content from the Website."
This is the important part:
"...publicly perform and display such Content ON THE WEBSITE."
In other words, by posting any content on MySpace.com, you are
granting MySpace/Fox permission to "display" that content on
MySpace.com. They do not have permission to use it anywhere else, and
the permission you are granting is non-exclusive, meaning that you
are able to post or use your content anywhere else.
I'd lay odds that pretty much any commercial website on the Internet
that allows people to post content of any sort will have a very
similar clause in their user agreement. It's quite innocuous, really.
Somehow, people jumped to the conclusion that Fox was going to start
using music posted to MySpace as a free soundtrack to their TV shows
or something. This legal statement doesn't allow for anything of the sort.
Greg
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