Thanks Jim for the info - I am outraged & will be
registering my protest ASAP. Frances
---James McCluer <repa(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote:
Attention Geocities Users:
If you have GenWeb data on Geocities (I don't) you
need to read the
following on Geocities new Terms of Service. What
it means in
a
nutshell that Geocities, recently bought out by
Yahoo Inc. can
do
anything with your data that they feel like doing.
The following was extracted by me on Geocities
Terms of Service
Contract:
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. You acknowledge that
Yahoo does not
pre-screen
Content, but that Yahoo and its designees shall
have the right
(but not
the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse,
edit, move
or remove
any Content that is publicly available via the
Service. Without
limiting
the foregoing, Yahoo and its designees shall have
the right to
remove
any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise
objectionable. You
agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks
associated
with, the
use of any Content, including any reliance on the
accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In
this regard,
you
acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content
created by
Yahoo or
submitted to Yahoo, including without limitation
information in
Yahoo!
Message Boards, Yahoo! Clubs, and in all other
parts of the
Service.
Don't take just my word for it, to confirm this
report, read the online
news article by Wired Com at URL:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html
No, I'm not making this up and its for real ! Like
I said before, if
USGW does not take steps to protect its data in
"written" legal language
(and not some arbitrary statement on a web page)
and it must be
agreed
to by the Host or Provider of such GenWeb sites,
then the data
is not
safe from redistribution or outright claim to
ownership.
Don't believe
me? The above is an example of what can be done by
Web Hosts.
Additionally, if you do have a Geocities account,
do not, I repeat do
not get a new password. Your old password does not
work and in
order to
modify or do anything with your web site on
Geocities you must
agree to
the Terms of Service as stated above. In other
words, you have
given
all your data to Yahoo Inc. if you get a new
password and
subsequently
by default agree to their Terms of Service.
Jim McCluer
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