Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators….
“You retain all ownership rights to Content uploaded to Twitpic. However, by submitting Content to Twitpic, you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Twitpic’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.”
I wonder how long it’ll be before The Behemoth swallows it whole.
Edit…lots more on the BJP here…including the fact that they’ve partnered with WENN to sell the images…so it goes…
Discussion (6 Comments)
This could conceivably cause them a great deal of legal trouble if they take images that have been posted by users, which are actually licensed by someone else, or some other entity, who did not post them to Twitpic. I hope the hand that feeds them bites them back sooner rather than later.
Yikes! http://www.duckrabbit.info/2011/05/new-twitpic-terms-of-service-and-theyre-not-good/
RT @Cazlou1980: Yikes! http://www.duckrabbit.info/2011/05/new-twitpic-terms-of-service-and-theyre-not-good/
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