Folderol wrote: > Somebody recently posted on here a URL for a song on Myspace.com. > Please NEVER do this again. > > It appears that since being taken over by Murdoch the hosting agent has > re-written the contract terms with unbelievable rights claims. They now > claim copyright on EVERYTHING posted, including all text, pictures and > music. They also reserve the right to modify re-post and even sell all > material they host, without notifying you. This applies even after you > take down the material yourself - so presumably they archive everything. > > In most parts of the world such contract terms can not be made > retrospective so presumably anything put on there before the Murdoch > takeover is safe...ish. However, do you fancy a legal battle with that > organisation? > Why are you suggesting not to place a URL on here about a song on myspace.com? I don't understand. The URL is not a copyright violation and posting the URL is not either. Are you merely indicating that you don't people visiting myspace.com because of terms have changed because of ownership change?
