Hi Bill,
Forgive me for intruding but...
It is the sentence between the two that you quoted that is the problem:
"By submitting Submitted Content to
RootsWeb.com, you grant
MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the Service, a limited
license to the Submitted Content to use, host, and distribute that
Submitted Content and allow hosting and distribution on co-branded
Services of that Submitted Content. "
You grant the parent company the right to ALLOW HOSTING AND
DISTRIBUTION ON CO-BRANDED SERVICES. (Please forgive the caps -- I am
not shouting -- I would use bold if it were available.) Those
co-branded services include
Ancestry.com which is a for-profit
company. I would never presume to tell anyone where they should
submit data -- that is an individual decision. But everyone should
be aware of all the facts.
The following are links to information about the Internet
Biographical Collection that started all this (the comments are important too):
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/08/the-generations.html
and
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/08/internet-biogra.html
and
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/08/internet-biog-1.html
And finally from Dear Myrtle:
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2007/08/numbers-ranking-ancestrycom.html
Negotiations between the USGenWeb Advisory Board and The Generations
Network about banners (i.e. branding) on all USGenWeb pages are continuing.
Rel@ively,
Patrice
At 2/22/2008 02:10 PM, you wrote:
Laverne, I must be looking at a different UAP than you are. The
RootsWeb
UAP at
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html does not contain the
word "sell" anywhere, nor is there any mention of profit or resale.
What I did find is:
*"User-Provided Content*
Portions of the Service will contain user-provided content, to which you
may contribute appropriate content (the "Submitted Content") For this
Content, *_the submitter is the owner_,* and
RootsWeb.com is only a
distributor." ....
"MyFamily.com, Inc. is sensitive to copyright and other intellectual
property rights of others."
Am I missing something here?
Thx,
William Zehner