[OSM-talk] Photobucket

[Simon Hewison]

Andy Robinson wrote:
> Reading the full paragraph you are missing the first line which clearly
> confirms that they do not own your photos but that they have the right to
> use them.

.. and to sell/otherwise provide them (sublicense them) to anyone they feel
like is anything vaguely to do with the Internet.

Seriously though, almost any shared web hosting service, especially a free
one, would have something similar in the terms, effectively saying that in
order for us to publish your content on the Internet, we need to have a
licence to redistribute the content on your behalf, and that by uploading
content to a publicly available web server, you're allowing the hosting
provider to distribute as many copies as it sees fit to do so, to whoever it
sees fit to do so.

It also means that should you wish to delete the content because it's too
embarrassing, or whatever, that all the other copies of the content that
have been distributed so far won't magically be destroyed. All pretty
straightforward stuff.

Now pass those two paragraphs above to a lawyer, and they'll pad out an
internet hosting agreement out to four or more pages, so nobody bothers to
read it.

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Simon Hewison