On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Leah Gadzikowski <lrgadz01[_at_]gwise.louisville.edu> wrote:
>
> 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?
If an accurate report, it is truely outrageous bahavior.
Isn't it quaint? Yahoo spends zillions promoting an image of "cheerful good guys" but their actions belie their words. The lesson remains: judge people/companies not by their public utternaces but by their private behavior.
Unilateral alteration of contract terms followed by detenue and conversion, is hardly going to be good business; especially when we tell all our friends...
CS
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Colin Seeger, Consultant, Management of Intellectual Property. P.O Box 3227, Tamarama, Sydney, Australia 2026 Tel: (61) (02) 9365 1186, Fax (61) (02) 9365 1286 <seeger[_at_]ozemail.com.au> Received on Sat Jul 03 1999 - 00:17:08 GMT
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