I don't think you can tell, from the information here, which it is. And the context of the service provided is important. Hosting where people are parking original content (such as blogs or pix) may have TOS similar to this sometimes, if you compare Picasa or Flickr or Photobucket. That doesn't make it right or enforceable, when the hosting company is claiming all rights to that material. IMHO (not an attorney, not legal advice, disclaimers as with other folks commenting above) I see a blur going on there compared to TOS clauses for a social media site where people are grabbing pix of stars from commercial media that they really don't own the rights for, but nobody's seriously enforcing it.
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Date: 16 Oct 2011 09:08 pm (UTC)Hosting where people are parking original content (such as blogs or pix) may have TOS similar to this sometimes, if you compare Picasa or Flickr or Photobucket. That doesn't make it right or enforceable, when the hosting company is claiming all rights to that material. IMHO (not an attorney, not legal advice, disclaimers as with other folks commenting above) I see a blur going on there compared to TOS clauses for a social media site where people are grabbing pix of stars from commercial media that they really don't own the rights for, but nobody's seriously enforcing it.