----- Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed May 3 2006 15:41, Brett McCoy wrote:
> > (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. You represent and
>
> I'm no lawyer, but to me it seems that all those rights you're
> giving them only applies to Myspace itself ("to use, ... and
> distribute such Content on and through the Services.")
> Regardless, I don't think you're giving them the right to sell
> it on CD or use it in a soundtrack, or a commercial (unless it's
> airing on Myspace itself.) There's no "including but not
> limited to", just "on and through the Services". But millions
> have been lost through the presence or absence of a comma, so
> who knows.
You missed the part about sublicense:
"(with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees)"
MySpace just said they can steal your shit and use it for anything they want for fun and profit. Let's rename it to "ourspace.com"
-lee
