user agreement isn't all that bad now.
Bill Streeter
LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
www.lofistl.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >
> They've made some improvements on the YouTube licence,
> while thoroughly covering their asses.
>
> For instance, you can withdraw your vid at any time, terminating
> all rights to Yahoo and it's users.
>
> Note the remix stipulations in paras 4 b) and 4 c)
>
> joly
> >
>
>
> Yahoo! Video Service Additional Terms of Service ("Additional
> Terms")
>
> 1. ACCEPTANCE OF YAHOO! TERMS
>
> Welcome to the Yahoo! Video Service ("Yahoo! Video Service").
> Your use of the Yahoo! Video Service is subject to these
> Additional Terms and supplement the Yahoo! Terms of Service
> ("TOS") located at http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ incorporated
> by reference. Yahoo reserves the right to update and change, from
> time to time, these Additional Terms and all documents
> incorporated by reference. You can always find the most recent
> version of these Additional Terms at
> http://video.yahoo.com/html/tos.html and the most recent version
> of the TOS at the URL indicated above.
>
> 2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
>
> The Yahoo! Video Service provides functionality that allows Yahoo!
> users who have a valid Yahoo! ID ("You") to upload video content
> ("Video Content") to be hosted by Yahoo! and to be indexed and
> crawled by Yahoo!'s Video Search technology for public display on
> Yahoo!'s network of properties, including without limitation,
> Yahoo! Video Search, and on Yahoo!'s syndicated third party sites,
> and for the public posting, viewing and sharing of the Video
> Content with others. You expressly acknowledge and agree that the
> Yahoo Video Service is a public service, that once You submit Your
> Video Content for inclusion into the Yahoo! Video Service, it will
> be accessible by others, and that there is no confidentiality or
> privacy with respect to Your Video Content. There is no cost to
> you to submit Your Video Content.
>
> 3. PROHIBITED CONTENT AND CONDUCT
>
> By submitting Your Video Content, You agree:
>
> a. that You own or have the necessary licenses, rights,
consents
> and permissions to all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright
> or other proprietary rights ("Rights") to the Video Content, and
> any audio, music, or other works of art that You incorporate into
> Your Video Content, and to authorize Yahoo! to use and include the
> Video Content in the Yahoo! Video Service in the manner
> contemplated in these Additional Terms.
>
> b. that You have the written consent, release, and/or
permission
> of each and every identifiable individual person in Your Video
> Content to use such person's name or likeness for use and
> inclusion in the Yahoo! Video Service in the manner contemplated
> in these Additional Terms.
>
> c. not to include any Video Content that is unlawful, harmful,
> threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar,
> pornographic, offensive, indecent, libelous, invasive of another's
> privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise
> objectionable.
>
> 4. SUBMISSION OF VIDEO CONTENT TO YAHOO!
>
> You retain ownership to the Video Content You submit for inclusion
> into the Yahoo! Video Service. However, by submitting Your Video
> Content to Yahoo!, You hereby grant Yahoo! the following
> worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and
> transferable rights and licenses:
>
> a. to host, cache, store, archive, index, crawl, create
> algorithms based thereon, modify or transcode the Video Content to
> appropriate media formats, standards or mediums as part of the
> Yahoo! Video Service;
>
> b. to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, remix, excerpt,
adapt,
> prepare derivative works of, publicly perform and publicly display
> the Video Content on the Yahoo! Video Service or on any Yahoo!
> property, including in connection with any distribution or
> syndication arrangement thereof with third parties or third party
> sites, in any media format or medium and through any media
> channels; and
>
> c. to use Your Video Content for advertising, promotional or
> commercial purposes, including without limitation, the right to
> publicly display, perform, reproduce and distribute Your Video
> Content in any media format or medium and through any media
> channels.
>
> By submitting Your Video Content for inclusion into the Yahoo!
> Video Service, you also grant the following use of and rights to
> Your Video Content to others: (i) the non-exclusive license to
> access Your Video Content through the Yahoo! Video Service; (ii)
> the ability for Yahoo! registered users ("Yahoo! Users") to rate,
> review, comment on and tag Your Video Content; (iii) the ability
> to embed Yahoo!'s video player with Your Video Content on their
> web site; (iv) the ability for Yahoo! Users to send and distribute
> Your Video Content via E-mail or Instant Messenger; (v) the
> ability to access Your Video Content via Yahoo!'s web service APIs
> or via RSS or any similar XML or related feeds; and (vi) the non-
> exclusive license to use, reproduce, distribute, remix, prepare
> derivative works of and compilations, display and perform Your
> Video Content as permitted through the functionality of the Yahoo!
> Video Service and under these Additional Terms and the TOS.
>
> The foregoing licenses granted by You shall terminate once You
> remove or delete Your Video Content from the Yahoo! Video Service.
>
> 5. ADVERTISING RIGHTS
>
> Yahoo! reserves and has the right to sell, license and/or display
> any advertising, promotional and distribution rights in connection
> with Your Video Content and Yahoo! will be entitled to retain any
> and all revenue generated from any sales or licenses of such
> advertising, promotional or distribution rights. Nothing in these
> Additional Terms obligates or may be deemed to obligate Yahoo! to
> sell, license or offer to sell or license any advertising,
> promotion or distribution rights.
>
> 6. INDEMNITY
>
> You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Yahoo, and its
> subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, or other partners, and
> employees, from any claim or demand, including reasonable
> attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of
> Your use of and access to the Yahoo! Video Service, Your violation
> of the TOS, these Additional Terms, Your violation of any rights
> of another person or entity, or Your violation of any applicable
> laws or regulations.
>
> 7. YAHOO!'S RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
>
> In addition to all other legal remedies available to Yahoo!, You
> acknowledge that Yahoo! has the right to remove Your Video Content
> from the Yahoo! Video Service or refuse to include Your Video
> Content in the Yahoo! Video Service, suspend or terminate Your
> Yahoo! account or refuse to grant You access to any current or
> future use of the Yahoo! Video Service or any Yahoo! service with
> or without warning if Yahoo!, in its sole discretion, believes You
> have: (i) violated or tried to violate the rights of Yahoo! or
> others; or (ii) violated or tried to violate or acted
> inconsistently pursuant to these Additional Terms or any other
> terms of the TOS.
>
> 8. INVALIDITY OF SPECIFIC TERMS
>
> If any provision of these Additional Terms or any document
> incorporated by reference is found by a court of competent
> jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that
> the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties'
> intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions
> of such documents remain in full force and effect
>
> 9. LOCATION OF LAWSUIT
>
> The TOS, which apply to Your use of the Yahoo! Video Service,
> provide that both You and Yahoo! agree to submit to the personal
> and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county
> of Santa Clara, California, USA.
>
>
>
>
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