MySpace content ownership

Post author By Toni
Post date June 2006
10 Comments on MySpace content ownership

Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace's terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service:

Musicians' rights: Lost in MySpace?

10 replies on “MySpace content ownership”

Maybe we need a MySpsace importer after all? 😉

[…] Maybe MySpace, isn’t Bob @ 12:08 am Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace’s terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service: […]

[…] Toni has a bitch about MySpace claiming ownership of all user content. The troublesome fine print informs users that by posting any content, “you hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.” […]

Now…where have I seen wording like that before?! It's amazing that people only just caught on to this. I seem to recall Toni and I putting some words up a bit like that on a little playlist sharing site we once ran! Seemed like a good idea at the time … but then we weren't Rupert Murdoch – and last time I checked we still weren't

this is the case with almost every thing you are getting free on interent not just with myspace

This has to be the most rediculous thing MySpace has ever done. Probably due to liability reasons… then again, why would MySpace want to be liable for everything users upload.