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I too am looking for a web-site to host pictures. Having noticed that so many "Jeepz.com" members use Sony Imagestation as their pic host, I browsed to the Sony web site and read through the Imagestation Member Agreement.
I am troubled by several particulars of the member agreement. Especially paragraph number-6: " License Grant and Intellectual Property Rights."
"In consideration for the Service, and the potential benefits related thereto, you grant Imagestation, its successors, licensees and assigns, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty free license to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, publish, publicly perform, and publicly display your Member Content, by all means now known, or later created, including but not limited to display on the Internet, and in all forms of media, now known or later created."
My non-lawerly interpretation of the quoted paragraph is that an Imagestation member gives all rights to anything posted on the Sony Imagestation web site to Sony: our pics become Sony's pics, to use as Sony sees fit, even to sell, now and into perpetuity.
Why would a multi-katrillion dollar corporation make a member agree to that?
There is more -- lots more -- that I find troubling, but for the sake of brevity I won't quote more of the member agreement here.
Dunno...perhaps I am being overly cynical (an occupational hazard -- or at least it was when I had an occupation), but "scam-alert" klaxons sound in my head when I read the Sony Imagestation member agreement.
Since this is the "General" section, any thoughts as regards the Sony Imagestation member agreement?
Inspector-G[addsig]
