[ale] Yahoo TOS [was: is USB stick safer than CD-ROM/DVD]

[James Sumners]

I copied the text from "flicker.com > Terms of Service". It's the same
language that was in place before the site was acquired by Yahoo!.

Still, if you read the preamble to that section and skip over (a) to
read (b), the same language is in place. If you upload a "public"
picture to flickr.com, Yahoo! can then modify it however they like and
use it to promote the Flickr service.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>
>  I still think they are, because the part of the TOS you quote does not
>  apply to Flickr. It clearly says that it applies to "Yahoo! Groups",
>  which is a completely different service. http://groups.yahoo.com/
>
>  I'm pasting the entire TOS again below. It's very clear that part one
>  applies only to Yahoo! Groups, part two applies only to a/v content not
>  on Yahoo! Groups, and part three only applies to non-a/v content not on
>  Yahoo! Groups.
>
>  Also, note that all of the above only apply to "publicly accessible
>  areas". It's easy to mark photos on Flickr as private.
>
>  For the record, I'm not a laywer, not associated with Yahoo, not even a
>  paying user of Flickr.


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