Legal person here -- but not a specialist in IP law (I teach it, but I don't *do* it), and this ain't any kind of advice, much less legal advice...
I'd read that to say:
If you put stuff you've created on our site we have the right to do anything we want with it, including -- if we can figure out how -- making money off it.
We can let other people use it too (how one becomes a sub-licensee isn't clear, it may be that all users of the service are sub-licensees and therefore can use each others content ... or it could require separate contracts.)
We have to stop if you take your stuff and go home. (That is, of course, if they make it possible to take your stuff ... some social networking sites make it next to impossible to get all the info off of an account and shut it down.)
If you put stuff that someone else created onto our site, and the someone else comes after us. It's all your fault (not ours) and you have to pay anything they can dig out of you.
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Or, in other words, a quite typically nasty out of the box contract that the site owners like 'cause it gives everything to them ... even though chances are they've no idea what exactly to do with "everything" once it's there.
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Date: 16 Oct 2011 07:34 pm (UTC)I'd read that to say:
If you put stuff you've created on our site we have the right to do anything we want with it, including -- if we can figure out how -- making money off it.
We can let other people use it too (how one becomes a sub-licensee isn't clear, it may be that all users of the service are sub-licensees and therefore can use each others content ... or it could require separate contracts.)
We have to stop if you take your stuff and go home. (That is, of course, if they make it possible to take your stuff ... some social networking sites make it next to impossible to get all the info off of an account and shut it down.)
If you put stuff that someone else created onto our site, and the someone else comes after us. It's all your fault (not ours) and you have to pay anything they can dig out of you.
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Or, in other words, a quite typically nasty out of the box contract that the site owners like 'cause it gives everything to them ... even though chances are they've no idea what exactly to do with "everything" once it's there.