[at-l] OT Do you Yahoo?

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

If so, they own your work!

"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.... "

In short, any content you have on GeoCities or any other of Yahoo's
properties is theirs to use, ROYALTY-FREE, forever. Any images that you've
made, any of your own copyrighted material you've made available, any
pictures you've published, etc. belongs to them and they can do whatever
they want with it, forever, in any medium "or technology now known or later
developed."

I bet you weren't aware that any work you've produced and shown to others
via your GeoCities site now "belongs" to you AND Yahoo. Further, if you read
closely you see that they also gave themselves the "fully sublicensable
right and license to use" so they can take your property, sell it to others
(giving you nothing), or even license it to your competitor AND NOT PAY YOU
A DIME!

What's worse, you can't even take your content off of GeoCities WITHOUT
AGREEING TO THESE TERMS! If you're there already, they've got your material
now, lock, stock and barrel!

It is time to show these corporate clowns that there is a large, diverse
internet outside of their "properties" and they can shove their various
services into whichever oriface they may fit, now or in the future!

Stop using Yahoo. Boycott them, and all of their properties. This includes
Yahoo.com, GeoCities.com and Broadcast.com. Don't buy products from
merchants at shopping.Yahoo.com and let them know why!

More... http://www.sitepowerup.com/boycottyahoo/boycottyahoo.htm


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