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
On 12/14/05, chthonic streams <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com> wrote:
quoted 34 lines Is that true???
> >Is that true???
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Chork the Jangler [mailto:meatsock@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:44 PM
> >> To: Mantrakid
> >> Cc: Lumin Egress; idm@hyperreal.org
> >> Subject: Re: [idm] Music Hosting
> >>
> > > tracks on myspace become the property of fox news corp
>
>
> not really. the myspace terms of service changed after the
> acquisition to read:
>
> "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."
>
> note the key phrases "non-exclusive" and the last sentence. all this
> seems to be is legalese for, "your music is providing content for our
> website but we don't owe you anything for it." just in case, say, a
> band with tens of thousands of hits started to think they should get
> a piece of the advertising dollars their page is generating for the
> site.
>
> here's the village voice article the quote was found in:
>
> http://www.villagevoice.com/screens/0533,webmccombs,66817,28.html
>
>
>
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