Yahoo wants to know how well their new video syntem works!

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> And as long as yahoo says in their TOS  that they own the copyright
>
>for every
>
>> character that passes through their servers, it will continue to be a
>> mostly hate relationship on my part.
>
>It doesn't say that (at least anymore).  In fact it says, "Yahoo! does
>not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for
>inclusion on the Yahoo! Services."

Thanks, I had not actually checked recently.

>(http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/).  There is a "worldwide,
>royalty-free and non-exclusive license" but that is fairly standard.

I'll have to read that when I am awake, which I am not really ATM, too late 
for me.

>Even if it did claim copyright, it would be invalid.  You can't transfer
>copyright by click wrap.  A "transfer of copyright ownership, other than
>by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or
>a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed"
>(http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#204).  Patents also
>require an "instrument in writing"
>(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/261.html).
>
>> I won't willingly suggest a solution that may be better, and have a yahoo
>> legal at the USTPO the next morning filing on what is basically a napkin
>> sketch picked up off the floor.  That is not right, and all of you should
>> have the same attitude.
>
>They don't have the right to do that.

Good.  Excellent even.  Thank you, Matt.

>Best,
>
>Matt Flaschen



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