Mark Roberts wrote: > >Mark - True, some don't hold them forever, just as long as you have > >content on their servers, but some also sell them on whilst you're a > >customer > > Wow. I've never heard of that happening! Do you have details?
You can't find the details directly on the internet (without going through the process of *almost* signing up for an account), but I came across one when I was about to press the button on accept terms and conditions; to which there was a link and a huge document which I can't believe people read in any depth, if at all. I then decided to ask the question here before going any further. Since your question above I've had another look at what various sites do, this for example is of interest: http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-results.php Now I accept with a free service for a provider to either add advertising, or limit the amount of capacity your website has - or both - but the impression I am given is that buried in the terms and conditions are often conditions which most of us would find wholly unacceptable. Maybe some people don't care what they do with their content if they don't get a monthly or annual fee and accept it as a trade off? I'm not claiming that any of them do what they have signed over to them (possible future planning so they don't have to come back and ask?), but it appears that many rights can be signed away by the click of a button. I think it would be really interesting to compare really accurately exactly what hold and for how long each provider has over the material uploaded to each site, and what each organisation wants, certainly by someone who understands the legal jargon well enough to seek out and translate into everyday language what we really want to know. In the meantime, I'm happy to put my hand in my own pocket, so they don't have to look for income elsewhere. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
