On 08/11/2012 09:09 AM, jeremy youngs wrote: > I also > being the owner and moderator If we wanted to set it up here would > give all the files freely to the organization. I don't intend this in a mean way, but if you agree to a license, you are bound by that license. There was a woman who found that out the hard way. She was on a plane when the space shuttle broke through the clouds, and she snapped a picture of it with her cell phone, and stored it with her twitter account.
It became a hot item for news outlets all over the country, but she couldn't sell it to them... because twitters license agreement let them sell the pictures for her, without compensation to her. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/who-really-owns-your-photos-in-social-media157.html By the time you decide you want to give the files back to the group, you legally can't, because you no longer own them. I've read license agreements that most people just click through. Craig's list used to, and may still, have a really bad gotcha about spam. If Craig ever got in financial trouble, all he would have to do is look for someone on his list that is sending out spam emails, and collect $25 for each spam email sent. If nobody ACTUALLY sent any spam through Craig's list it would be no problem. According to the license agreement everybody agreed to, if Craig says your EMAIL is spam, then legally your EMAIL is spam. Craig gets to be the final and legal judge about what constitutes spam. Most people agree a court might not allow the agreement as stated, but if the court considered themselves bound by the letter of the law, they would have to. Also, if Craig wanted to stay in business, he wouldn't want to anger his customers, but if he got in a desperate financial situation, such an action is a remote possibility. I also read one once that was funny. There was a web site, I believe it was called felon-watch. On the surface it appeared to be a site where you type in your address, and it would list the convicted felons in your area, and the addresses of where they lived. It turned out it was a joke site, probably more intending to make people understand the seriousness of the license agreements they click through than anything else. The license agreement said something like this: "In order to use this site, you must be greater than 86 years old, and have a hippopotamus in your living room. Further..." (not really quoted, but paraphrased) Now I wish I had copied and pasted that license agreement into a document, because it was long, and hysterically funny! All the people at work were upset at all the bad guys living in their neighborhoods until I pointed the license agreement out! One person actually asked me why I was reading the license agreement, and suggested I just click through it to get to the good part. License agreements are a pain, but they're here to stay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
