Yahoo Web Ring License ... and upcoming articles

[Andy Finney <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've finally got around to reading the Yahoo small print since 
concerns were raised about Yahoo taking a license on material in 
'publicly accessible areas' - the extract from clause 8 is this one:

With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make 
available for inclusion on publicly accessible area of the Service 
other than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! 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 
removes such Content from the Service.

But clause 8 then goes on to define publicly accessible areas and the 
definition specifically EXCLUDES the following (extracted):

  ... areas off of the Yahoo network of properties such as portions of 
World Wide Web sites that are accessible through Yahoo! Webring but 
are not hosted or served by Yahoo.

Therefore I can see no attempt by Yahoo to take any rights in 
anything on an external web site linked via a web ring unless the 
site in question is part of Yahoo. As I said before, the licence is 
to allow Yahoo to display anything you put on the Yahoo site itself.

Worries over guys!

Now some advance news. Some of us on the list have been approached 
for images to go with an Infrared Photography article in the June 
issue of Practical Photography. With any luck myself and Spearmint 
(and some others) will get to strut our funky-IR stuff in the widest 
circulated photo mag in the UK (71 thousand copies per issue it says 
here). No promised though. We should know next week when they come 
back and ask for repro-quality images. The RPS Journal is also 
planning an article on IR. It was supposed to be in the current 
edition but has obviously got pushed back.

Incidentally I have noticed that Simon Marsden and Michael Trevillion 
are placing infrared B&W images on the covers of UK paperbacks in 
significant numbers. The Inspector Morse books, for example, have 
Michael's photos on them and Simon has shots on some other best 
sellers over here. My congratulations to them both for this: but they 
have probably cornered the market.

Spring is here and the time is right for getting out and basking in 
that Wood effect!

Andy
www.invisiblelight.co.uk
www.atsf.co.uk/ilight/
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