Re: [photo-3d] Changes in egroups - FYI

[Gromit <gromit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh my.  I wasn't ready for this.   I went and looked at their TOS statement 
(http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/) and found the following:

*****excerpt******8. PUBLIC CONTENT POSTED TO YAHOO
(a) For purposes of the TOS, "publicly accessible areas of the Service" are 
those areas of the Yahoo network of properties accessible by the general 
public. By way of example, a publicly accessible area of the Service would 
include public Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Message Boards, but would not 
include private Yahoo! Clubs, private Yahoo communication services such as 
Yahoo! Mail or Yahoo! Messenger, or 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.
(b) With respect to Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly 
accessible areas of Yahoo! Clubs or that consists of photos or other 
graphics you elect to post to any other publicly accessible area of the 
Service, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive 
license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Content on the Service 
solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the 
specific Yahoo! Club to which such Content was submitted, or, in the case 
of photos or graphics, solely for the purpose for which such photo or 
graphic was submitted to the Service. This license exists only for as long 
as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and shall 
be terminated at the time you delete such Content from the Service.
(c) With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other publicly 
accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo the royalty-free, 
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive 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.
*****excerpt******

It sounds like anything we post to a "public area" can be used forever by 
Yahoo for whatever they want.  The exception to this is graphics which they 
can use as long as they have the files.
This is a subscription list, does that mean that it is not public?  What 
about the archives of the list?  As I read this, I was thinking about the 
great wealth of original information that is shared through this list and 
what someone could do if they were given rights to "reproduce, modify, 
adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute" some 
of that information.

Would it be good or bad to see a "Yahoo Stereo Viewer, based on design 
parameters by the great DrT!" start showing up in the online shopping malls?

John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska

At 05:58 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>We have exciting news to share with you. We want you to be among the
>first to know that eGroups and Yahoo! Clubs will be merging. The new
>service will be called Yahoo! Groups.