Yahoo! (fwd)

The following came though on another list. It appears to me that Yahoo! is trying to abrogate all prior copyrighted items. Am I wrong?

Stan Morris

> Subject: Yahoo!
> Sender: owner-rmiug-discuss[_at_]rmiug.org
>
> Has anyone seen the terms page at Yahoo/GeoCities for home page
> creation? Here's an extract:
>
> > 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.
>
> (See http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ at paragraph 8)
>
> It is not clear whether content means a URL submission too.

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Stan Morris, Atty
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<smmorris[_at_]rmi.net> Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 15:43:45 GMT