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This was posted on the Illustrators list by The Graphic Designers 
Guild....this is important!



To: All Guild Members
From: Graphic Artists Guild National
Date: June 30, 1999
Subject: Yahoo Rights Grab


Warning to Yahoo Subscriber & Potential Contributors! 

Since its acquisition of Geocities, online service provider Yahoo has
changed its ãterms of serviceã. This new "take it or leave it" contract
particularly concerns artists, web developers or anyone else who upload any
copyrightable material on the Geocities/Yahoo site. The offending language
reads:


"8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or
warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the
royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable
right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate,
create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content
(in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any
form, media, or technology now known or later developed...."


We will keep you posted on this issue, but until we can resolve Yahoo's
intent, artists may wish to consider moving their property to another host
site. 

For further information, go to: 
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,1087,10_147231,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html
http://webdeveloper.com/refresh/refresh_062999.html 

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