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All Music and Art Posted on Myspace; Belongs to Myspace
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| cjharri |
I read this on the darren tate forum so i thought i would post it here as well:
All Music and Art Posted on Myspace; Belongs to Myspace
Body: Body: Artists: Myspace owns your original works and creations
Someone was bright enough to read the small print of the MySpace terms and conditions and found that once an artist posts up any content (including songs), it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it, throughout the world without payng the artist.
Below is the offending clause. We are hoping to start a small revolution to try and put a stop to this. You can do your bit by posting out a bulletin to all your friends, esp artists, and badgering Tom with e-mails letting him know how unfair this clause is.
Thanks for your help and support. The amazing thing about My Space is how fast we can all communicate so if we all do our bit we should be able to change this.
Take Care.
TERMS: (as of 17th March 2006)
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By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, 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. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a back-up or residual copy of the Content posted by you may remain on the MySpace.com servers after you have removed the Content from the Services, and MySpace.com retains the rights to those copies.
Important Update - May 3rd, 2006 It looks as if the terms have changed yet again. New Terms dated 1st May 2006 have removed all reference to their clause to retain back-up copies. I hope this is a step in the right direction. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| bollocks to that |
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| iammesol |
| No wonder Eric Prydz cancelled his official Cirez D site :( |
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| Tomas_P |
| well i'm not gonna get me a myspace account after reading that. |
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| RapidFire |
| what if someone uploads somebody elses music on there? |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
what if someone uploads somebody elses music on there? |
the RIAA are gunna have a field trip and a half |
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| Mr.Mystery |
Lol, it took this long before anyone actually read the legal text?:stongue:
I think it's a bit too late to fight it now, you've agreed to it already... |
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| cjharri |
| i havent posted anything on there yet. Good job i havent :D |
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| RapidFire |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
the RIAA are gunna have a field trip and a half |
yep. I smell b.s. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Lol, it took this long before anyone actually read the legal text?:stongue:
I think it's a bit too late to fight it now, you've agreed to it already... |
Actually, this particular piece of the text was all over the news shortly after FOX bought it out. It's another reason why I don't have a Myspace. |
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| Frase |
All it basically means is when people add music to their page they're not breaking any laws to distribute it etc
People are starting to panic thinking they're going to release it etc, but they're not going to much with just a sample of a tune? |
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