This reminded me that a few years ago Billy Bragg campaigned against a rather similar licence clause on MySpace, because of concerns that musicians who put material on the site might then be unable to exploit it commercially:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/myspace-exploits-musicians-says-bragg-481950.html
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
> Sent: 24 August 2010 21:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Web Service Terms and Conditions
>
> I think you may be confusing copyright, something we create by writing
> something, and licenced use, something we allow when we publish our
> copyright work. Though we may now be getting far away from the list's
> topics.
>
> When we create a simple work we become, n the UK for sure, the
> copyright holder/owner. This is by virtue of our creating the work.
>
> When we allow publication of a work we grant a licence, often
> irrevocable, for the publisher to use our copyright work for the
> purposes of the licence. Even when we edit Wikipedia under its current
> Creative Commons or prior GFDL licence we retain our copyright but
> licence it for Wikipedia to use for the foreseeable future.
>
> On 24 Aug 2010, at 21:05, Lawrence Serewicz wrote:
>
>
> Renzo,
> I agree these work and they serve an important purpose. My focus
> was the idea of something being irrevocable. All contracts are
> potentially subject to challenge. To be sure the stronger ones can
> sustain a challenge, but given time and money any positive law
> (contract) can be subverted.
>
> In this instance it serves its purpose. In the future, or should
> the issue reach a critical point (see credit default swaps) the point
> can be contested.
>
> In the end, the clauses serve their purpose, which is what is
> needed in these circumstances. Having said that, I think this too will
> soon change. Copyright in the electronic age will reduce and remove
> these clauses. How one organisation can retain intellectual property
> right in perpetuity (especially on content generated by someone else)
> is going to be hard to defend when copyright expires.
>
> I think it is the next area for the web as paper legal concepts
> are modified to meet the electronic age. For example, if I had wanted
> to copy the nytimes in 1932 there would have been little enforcement or
> wherewithal to do it. Now there is almost unlimited ability to
> reproduce and exploit the material. Mash ups and synthesis of a
> similar nature will start to erode the original value of the original
> author and reduce the belief that on can control something in
> perpetuity ie irrevocably.
>
> To be sure, there will always be enforcement at the cash nexus
> (someone trying to profit directly) but the ability to do this
> diminishes further away and from the cash nexus.
>
> The more the works are able to be reassembled the more diluted
> the property right and therefore its faster decay.
>
> Best
>
> Lawrence
>
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> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Web Service Terms and Conditions
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> I think that this language does not deal with any data protection
> issue. It is a fairly standard licence in relation to intellectual
> property; the site wishing to ensure that it does have permission
> forever to do whatever might have been protected by the organisation's
> intellectual property in the uploaded content. (Despite Lawrence's
> comments and millions that might be spent on lawyers, I think it works
> - but then I've written a few!)
>
> It does not mean that if that content contains personal data (as
> well as, say, copyright work) that DPA issues have been addressed.
> Quite clearly they have not.
>
> Nonetheless, I'm not sure that that part of DP 7 you highlight
> (instructions) is the right thing to worry about. It sounds to me -
> difficult to be certain without knowing more - that in relation to any
> uploaded personal data the web service itself will be the (or an
> additional) data controller and therefore need not act on instructions
> of your employer (the original controller). It does however need to
> comply with 7th principle generally - ie security (but the site is -
> presumably - public, so that's a no-brainer).
>
>
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> Sent: 24 August 2010 11:45
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> Subject: [data-protection] Web Service Terms and Conditions
>
> My organisation has signed up for (but not yet used) a web
> service.
>
> Given that "User Submissions" my well include personal datat does
> anyone think "... shall grant ... a worldwide, non-exclusive,
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> from the data controller" ?
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