On 2 July 1999, Michael Knight cited Yahoo! Terms of Service
> 8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
> [...]
> By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically
> grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted,
> Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully
> sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
> translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display
> such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other
> works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
There's also this:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/toshelp.html
"Some people have asked if under these rules Yahoo! can do things like
publish a book or make a movie using your Yahoo! GeoCities homepage
content. We cannot."
This is interpretation, not the actual contract. Even though Yahoo's own
interpretation, I don't see what in the TOS indicates it to be the *correct*
interpretation. Not a lawyer, but I'd guess they remain free to correct their
mistaken interpretation of the agreement you signed, and recognize that you
consented to more than they thought you had. TOS also states the consent
"perpetual, irrevocable." What would be the interpretation of persons who
might later acquire Yahoo and your agreement with the company?
But they do appear to have a link from this page permitting deletion of your
GeoCities web site -- http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/geo/cgi_remove
