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In article <3782A362.13305087@ask.me>, Mrs Beasley <jus### [at] ask me> wrote:
>For those that have sites on XOOM or Tripod, read those TOSs as well. They
>have the same type of wording. As a matter of fact, if you read the TOS for
>Tripod and XOOM the wording is almost identical to that of Yahoo. A lot of
>
>You grant to XOOM.com and its affiliates a royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable,
>nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy,
>modify, transmit, distribute, and publicly perform or display the
>submitted pages or other content for the purposes of displaying
>such information on XOOM.com's sites and for the
>promotion and marketing of XOOM.com's services. XOOM.com
>disclaims ownership of member sites and will not resell or
>otherwise convey these rights to any third party.
While the "perpetual, irrevocable" is still bothersome, XOOM at least does
not give itself the right to sublicense, and limits the rights to use only
for the purpose of maintaining the site, and for promotion and marketing
of the site. While "promotion and marketing" could well be construed
broadly, it is at least *some* limitation, which is more than Yahoo's
limitation.
(Note also that, the last I checked, Yahoo has *two* TOS files, one for
Geocities Homesteading and one for everything else. How long this will
last, I don't know. We appear to be talking about the Yahoo wording.)
If you can afford the few bucks a month, I'd recommend places like
pair.com and io.com.
Jerry
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