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To: Mark Fowler who wrote (66888)	7/7/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Respond to of 164684

Needess to say, both of you have much to say about the subject. I am just willing for breakfast at Brioche and profits to report to Uncle Sam <sic, sic>. Please help me!

To: Mark Fowler who wrote (66888)	7/7/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Needess to say, both of you have much to say about the subject. I am just willing for breakfast at Brioche and profits to report to Uncle Sam <sic, sic>

To: Mark Fowler who wrote (66888)	7/8/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Yahoo! bows to demands of GeoCities members By Scott Hillis LOS ANGELES, July 7 (Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc. <YHOO.O> said on Wednesday it had revised the terms of use for its GeoCities Web community after members complained the terms would rob users of control over the content of their personal Web sites. GeoCities, which lets users create Web sites for free, was bought by Yahoo earlier this year for $4.6 billion. The flap erupted after members were alarmed by language in the agreement sent out June 28, saying users gave Yahoo "the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable ... license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display" their content. For some of GeoCities' 4.6 million dwellers who use the service to display original art, manuscripts or photographs, the phrase appeared to give Yahoo control over their works. Overnight, a boycott movement sprang up, and the company moved quickly to try to soothe fears it could publish books or make movies based on works posted by members. Yahoo first added language June 30 saying it did not own content and later added a link to a letter explaining the agreement simply allowed Yahoo to copy material to its mirror sites around the world and for promotional purposes. Boycott participants said that was not enough and demanded Yahoo change the actual text of the agreement, saying the explanatory letter was not legally binding. Late on Tuesday, Yahoo gave in, rewriting the terms to state, "Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site." It said it had the right to reproduce or modify content, "solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities Site on Yahoo!'s Internet properties" and that the agreement would end when a user terminated his or her site. "We hoped that would do, and it certainly sent a message to our users that, hey, there's no sinister intent here," said Tim Brady, vice president of production for Yahoo. "At the end of the day, this business we are in is all about users, and the users decided they needed more." The boycotters, who had threatened to picket Yahoo's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. if their demands were not met, praised the company for the move. "I would ... like to give kudos to Yahoo and GeoCities for making these changes and being responsive to both your membership and other concerned citizens on the Internet," Jim Townsend, who ran a "boycottyahoo" Web site, said in an e-mailed statement. Other Web site-hosting services that had similar terms of service quickly revised them and sought to capitalize on Yahoo's predicament, advertising that they would not appropriate their members' content. Brady said the dispute had not had any measurable impact on the operations or membership of Yahoo or GeoCities.