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Re: [SANS] intellectual property: the wars begins

How much content do community sites "own"?

      GeoCities home page builders are finding that before they can
      enter the new Yahoo-GeoCities site, which launched today, they
      have to agree to new terms of service--including one that some
      equate to signing away the rights to their intellectual property.
      The term in question gives Yahoo "the royalty-free, perpetual,
      irrevocable, nonexclusive 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." "Now with the merger [between Yahoo and GeoCities],
      my Web site is no longer my own intellectual property, and the
      blood, sweat, and tears I put into it is now worthless," Adrean
      Clark, a GeoCities user, wrote in an email to CNET News.com. "If
      they ever decide to use any of my graphics or personal writings,
      they can sell it for their own profit."

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