Seems to be quite clear in what it says. Would be interesting for
someone to test in court on the basis of reasonableness and whether
the clause was obvious to all who might submit.
Note that it is only the "property" that you actually submit (the URL
in my case) that they claim to be able to use. I don't think that
even Yahoo could claim rights to intellectual property at the
destination end of a link.
For pages hosted by Yahoo the implications are presumably more severe
but even then it is a release of rights to Yahoo and not to every
user of their service.
Well spotted all the same. 8-)
> 8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
> By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or
> warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the
> 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 such Content
> (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any
> form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
> <snip>
>
> This confuses me. Does this mean people with sites on GeoCities or Yahoo! (I
> am aware of a number of academic staff who have 'small, home-grown software
> I've written myself for research purposes' sites on GeoCities) are kissing
> their rights goodbye? It may be nothing I guess, but I'm not sure.
>
Regards
Paul Chimicz
University of Warwick
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