Uwe Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> Hej Ken, hej all!
> 
> First: Ken, you really seem to live "in" this list, concerning your
> short answer delay times.... ;-)
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >    Let's look at it from a different perspective. Let's say I take 1
> > year making the most beautiful 3d raytraced image ever produced by
> > anyone. I then decide to share the fruits of my labor with the world
> > and then find it two weeks later as the official splash screen for
> > Yahoo/Geocities making a fortune for them and not a penny goes to me.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer, nor am I firm in the juristic language (and by the way
> I'm not employed by or in any other way related to Yahoo) used in the
> USA or otherwhere on this planet (as these languages often differ quite
> a lot from the "common" languages). However, in the Terms of Service the
> now often cited and controversely discussed paragraph reads:
> 
> "[..] By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically
> grant [..] 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. [..]"
> 
> Well isn't it, what we expect Yahoo to do? Publish our pages on a
> worldwide basis?
> Uploading something to your homepage at Geocities/Yahoo you do not
> surrender your authorship to Yahoo! They still have to name you as
> author/creator of your "most beautiful 3d raytraced image" whenever they
> decide to put it somewhere else!
> 
> And by the way: who guarantees you that your picture is not used as the
> title of a book somewhere else on this world, once you put it on the web
> - without your knowledge and without you ever seeing the result.....
> 
> By the way, Yahoo is very concerned that the latter does not happen to
> your creations, if you read article 23: Copyright and Copyright Agents
> of the Terms of Service:
> "Yahoo respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our
> users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a
> way that constitutes copyright infringement, pleas provide Yahoo's
> Copyright Agent the following: ..."
> 
> But that stuff above is only my own humbled opinion and my own
> interpretation of the contract.
> 
> Uwe.

What bothers me is the part where they say they can adapt or modify the content.
What would that imply?

Remco
http://www.geocities.com:80/SiliconValley/Lakes/7077/screen.html

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