yeah, i agree the new ToS is much less overreaching than the one Jon
posted earlier. But in researching it further:
- the change was rather recent
- they've been deleting posts on myspace.com discussing concerns about the ToS
my layman's interpertation of the current ToS seems to be more
legalize for: you posted it on the site we're allowed to display it...
-xenlab
On 7/27/05, Anthony Cary <forel@mac.com> wrote:
quoted 115 lines "on the Website." Which infers they aren't taking license to use it
> "on the Website." Which infers they aren't taking license to use it
> anywhere else. Your shit isn't getting played at a myspace sponsored
> show or in a myspace commercial, for example. Your shit is not going to
> be used on FauxNews to promote whateverthehell the new neocon issue is,
> for another.
> "non-exclusive" Which means that you're still free to do whatever the
> fuck you want with your own stuff anywhere else.
>
> Doesn't seem all that heinous to me, though I still think Murdoch is
> the personification of corporate evil.
>
> forel
> elitist fuck
>
> On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:45 PM, egyptian zombie robot wrote:
>
> > "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 is all the terms of use say now.
> >
> > - xenlab
> >
> > On 7/26/05, egyptian zombie robot <egyptianzombierobot@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> satan is ok in my book, but rubert murdoch is the devil.
> >>
> >> - xenlab
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/26/05, Clint M. Sand <clint@neotrance.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:47:27PM -0500, Jonathan Ackerman wrote:
> >>>> Hey guys, I'm not sure if you heard about this yet
> >>>>
> >>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050718/wr_nm/media_newscorp_dc_2
> >>>>
> >>>> Fox bought myspace.com
> >>>>
> >>>> Read the MySpace TOS regarding the sharing of rights with
> >>>> MySpace.com,
> >>>> if NewsCorp buys, they will share in the rights to whatever
> >>>> materials
> >>>> you upload to their servers. This includes written passages, images,
> >>>> photographs, MUSIC... Do you really want your materials owned by the
> >>>> largest media conglomerate to use at their will free-of-charge?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> By posting Content on any public area of MySpace.com, you
> >>>> automatically grant as well as represent and warrant that you have
> >>>> the
> >>>> right to grant to MySpace.com, an irrevocable, perpetual,
> >>>> non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform,
> >>>> display, and distribute such information and content to MySpace.com
> >>>> and that MySpace.com has the right to prepare derivative works of,
> >>>> or
> >>>> incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to
> >>>> grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
> >>>>
> >>>> I just thought you all should know
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the thoughts. If I made a type of music that I would
> >>> expect
> >>> to live on ever in my life I would indeed pull my stuff from there.
> >>>
> >>> There's also the idea of "Fox" who in my opinion is right up there
> >>> with
> >>> Satan.
> >>>
> >>> However, the idea that Fox would use my ambient wacky music for
> >>> something is almost enough for me to put up even more.
> >>>
> >>> Imagine it, fox breaks to emergency news coverage..
> >>> and Ambient IDM from myspace is playing! Hell if i knew fox was
> >>> going to
> >>> use my music I would've send them a cd a long time ago.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, I've had too much vodka tonight.
> >>>
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