GeoCities, which is a part of Yahoo, was set up for the purpose of giving free web sites to individuals who subscribe to their service. I heard this morning that Yahoo/Geocities has issued an amendment to their service agreement for free websites. According to this amendment all website contents become the exclusive property of Yahoo and they can therefore alter, distribute, and create derivitive works from anything on a websit that is on their servers. In essence, they are claiming that putting something on one of their web sites assigns the copyright to them.
There have been several complaints that I know of where a subscriber, who would not agree to the new terms, were disallowed from removing the contents of their web site and cancelling their membership.
Doesn't this violate copyright somewhere?
Leah
Leah Gadzikowski
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Received on Mon Jun 28 1999 - 14:25:04 GMT
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