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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6484)	6/29/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Francois Goelo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

Right, the Quest Shall be for Truth and Betterment with some Merriment and Enlightment thrown in for good Measure... Regards, F. Goelo + + +

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6484)	6/29/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32871

Now this is the stuff that uproars are made of: YAHOO'S AMAZING LAND GRAB GeoCities' millions of "homesteaders" have gone ballistic, and Net News doesn't blame them. GeoCities has been taken over by Yahoo, which relaunched it as Yahoo-GeoCities on Monday - and sneaked in new contract clauses saying Yahoo, not the members, owns EVERYTHING on members' sites and has irrevocable rights to them for all time. This is what Clause 8 says: "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." That means your pages, your words, your images, your ideas. Expect a tsunami - see docs.yahoo.com -From: Alan Farrelly, News Interactive. Australia Does that mean if you insult [name deleted] on the GeoCities site, then Yahoo owns the insult and will be the defendant if [name deleted] sees fit to file another superfluous lawsuit?