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MySpace content ownership

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Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace's terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service:

Musicians' rights: Lost in MySpace?

Written by Toni

June 9, 2006 at 7:08 am

Posted in Web 2.0

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  1. Maybe we need a MySpsace importer after all? ;)

    Donncha

    9 Jun 06 at 7:58 am

  2. [...] Maybe MySpace, isn’t Bob @ 12:08 am Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace’s terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service: [...]

    Politics in the Zeros»Blog Archive » Maybe MySpace, isn’t

    11 Jun 06 at 12:09 am

  3. [...] Toni has a bitch about MySpace claiming ownership of all user content. The troublesome fine print informs users that by posting any content, “you hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.” [...]

    wordpress™ wank » chucking pebbles round the conservatory

    12 Jun 06 at 9:14 am

  4. [...] Toni has a bitch about MySpace claiming ownership of all user content. The troublesome fine print informs users that by posting any content, “you hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.” [...]

    wordpress™ wank » chucking pebbles round the conservatory

    12 Jun 06 at 9:15 am

  5. Now…where have I seen wording like that before?! It’s amazing that people only just caught on to this. I seem to recall Toni and I putting some words up a bit like that on a little playlist sharing site we once ran! Seemed like a good idea at the time … but then we weren’t Rupert Murdoch - and last time I checked we still weren’t

    JeremyS

    13 Jun 06 at 1:46 pm

  6. this is the case with almost every thing you are getting free on interent not just with myspace

    unblock myspace

    30 Jun 06 at 9:32 am

  7. This has to be the most rediculous thing MySpace has ever done. Probably due to liability reasons… then again, why would MySpace want to be liable for everything users upload.

    MySpace Layouts

    11 Sep 06 at 4:07 pm

  8. What happened to companies like Napster will eventually happen to MySpace. They become too big for their britches.

    Jeffrey A. Solochek
    http://www.nosugarcoating.info

    Jeffrey A. Solochek

    26 Nov 06 at 5:16 pm

  9. Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
    Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
    Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?

    Terry

    1 Dec 06 at 4:45 am

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