Additional information regarding the Yahoo! claims over GeoCities homesteaders' homepage content, referred to in recent postings from Leah Gadzikowski and Stan Morris, may be found at:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,38463,00.html
Also, here is an excerpt from an explanation that a Yahoo! representative sent to one homesteader who expressed concern:
"We'd like to be really clear - Yahoo! does not claim to own content submitted to it by its users.
"Our Terms of Service require homesteaders to grant us the right to reproduce and otherwise use their content when we post and maintain it on the Yahoo! Network. There are simple and important reasons we have this policy and they are designed to benefit you. Listed below are two of the biggest reasons:
"1. When you upload a Web page or image to us, we often need to copy it to put it on the many computers that we use to serve home pages to people that want to look at your page. We need you to give us the right to copy and reproduce that content.
"2. We also might want to feature your home page on the front page of Yahoo! GeoCities or elsewhere on the Yahoo! Network, so you can get more people to see your page. We need to have that right; otherwise we couldn't reproduce this content.
"Yahoo! has always been focused on providing users with a compelling experience on the Web, and the Terms of Service are standard throughout the Yahoo! Network. We hope you understand that all of our actions are taken with you, the user, in mind.
"Thank you again for taking the time to write to us."
Bob
Robert C. Cumbow
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Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 23:09:01 GMT
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