Copyright, yours, mine or your ISP's?

[pecunium]

herowlness explains it all for you.

Not really, and I am sure the EFF will have more, but the quick version: the people who sell you your cable, and your ISP, and even places like Blogger and LJ, are beig offered the right to own the copyright, for 50 years, of the things which they "publish" as a side effect of you paying (or not, in the case of MySpace and LJ) to write your thoughts down, share your pictures, show off your kids artwork; the lot.

If this is as it appears, it's a huge grab of private intellectual property. It would make all sorts of things problematic (selling art on E-bay comes immediately to mind).

Look into it.

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Wasnt there a huge thing about this with geocities a while back? How their TOS said that? And that went over like a lead balloon...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

A ToS may have things which won't stand up in court. This is an attempt to get the issue defined as the default status in the law, any by international treaty.

Post a song on YouTube, and discover that TimeWarner owns it, and can sell it to Sony, without you seeing a penny of the millions of copies sold when nSync record it.

TK