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bobinatcat
24th of July 2007 (Tue), 07:39
Has anyone actually read the terms and conditions relating to uploading your images?

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CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE

Yahoo!7 does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo!7 the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:


With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo!7 Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo!7 Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo!7 removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo!7 Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo!7 removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo!7 Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
"Publicly accessible" areas of the Service are those areas of the Yahoo!7 network of properties that are intended by Yahoo!7 to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the Service would include Yahoo!7 Message Boards and portions of Yahoo!7 Groups, Photos and Briefcase that are open to both members and visitors. However, publicly accessible areas of the Service would not include portions of Yahoo!7 Groups that are limited to members, Yahoo!7 services intended for private communication such as Yahoo!7 Mail or Yahoo!7 Messenger, or areas off of the Yahoo!7 network of properties such as portions of World Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by Yahoo!7.
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Okay so they do not own them, but does it not bother anyone else that they are free to use the, royalty free, and not awknoledge you as the creator of it? *If I'm reading it correctly?!

*I am aware that is probably a more or less exactly what they would say in every image uploading site, apart from maybe your own webspace, purchased or used from your ISP.

StewartR
25th of July 2007 (Wed), 07:53
Translated into English, the Ts & Cs say that you're agreeing that they're allowed to show your images. What's your problem?

bobinatcat
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 01:31
Okay so they do not own them, but does it not bother anyone else that they are free to use the, royalty free, and not awknoledge you as the creator of it? *If I'm reading it correctly?!

*I am aware that is probably a more or less exactly what they would say in every image uploading site, apart from maybe your own webspace, purchased or used from your ISP.

thekid24
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 01:33
Watermark them.

DimensionZero
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 03:21
This is a pretty generic agreement. You'll actually see this on a lot of gallery type sites. Deviant Art has one pretty much just like this for example.

StewartR
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 13:20
I'm, struggling to understand what your problem is, bobinatcat. There's an awful lot going on behind the scenes of an image hosting site - copying, duplicating, backing up, resizing... and - this is the key point - that's all "use".

Would you expect them to pay you a royalty every time they duplicate your image onto a parallel server to improve performance? Would you expect them to acknowledge you as the creator every time they automatically resize one of your images, or every time they back one up to their disaster recovery site?

What exactly do you want?

GMACK24
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 17:22
yeah I don't really see a problem here. It's not like they are out pimping your photos . . .

3Turner
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 18:54
They are getting your permission first incase one of your photos is displayed on the homepage, random picture each time you refresh the page. Or perhaps as an example across the bottom of the homepage. take a look....still gives credit to the photographer.

Pekka
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 19:00
If you view http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129? (impressive demo) you can see how your photos in Flickr are used in creating new content and artwork for Microsoft. They do not mention the word copyright once.

3Turner
26th of July 2007 (Thu), 19:13
If you view http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129? (impressive demo) you can see how your photos in Flickr are used in creating new content and artwork for Microsoft. They do not mention the word copyright once.
Oh yeah, I remember that video....I like the concept.