Why I Won’t Use Flickr
As much as I would like to use Flickr to show off photo snaps like those over at ShutterCookies.co.uk however yet again unacceptable terms placed on uploaded content, i.e. your carefully crafted photos poncery, make it a no go. This is from Yahoo’s terms of service linked to from Flickr and essentially means once you’ve uploaded a photo Yahoo will forever, even after deletion (“irrevocable”), have rights to do anything they like with your works for any purpose they deem fit. Uuuum… no.
10.3. For all other User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites in any format or medium now known or later developed. Your User Content and any associated public user profile on the Yahoo! Services may appear on local Yahoo! sites in other countries.
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Anonymous 12:00 pm on May 5, 2011 Permalink |
Testing the new account is working well
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Zomoniac 2:08 pm on July 13, 2011 Permalink |
I’ve just read the Yahoo ToS. Paying particular attention to 10.2, which says “For photos, graphics … “, and 10.3, which says “For all other User Content you submit … “, which very strongly suggests to me that 10.3 is therefore not applicable to photos, and that the section relevant to pictures (10.2), is pretty much the same as the Google terms.
10.2. For photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you give to Yahoo! the worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content on the Yahoo! Services:
a) for the purposes for which that User Content was submitted; and
b) for the purpose of promoting the Yahoo! property to which the User Content was submitted or the Yahoo! Services anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites.
This licence exists only for as long as you continue to include the User Content on the Yahoo! Services and will end at the time you remove, or Yahoo! removes, the User Content from the Yahoo! Services.
10.3. For all other User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites in any format or medium now known or later developed. Your User Content and any associated public user profile on the Yahoo! Services may appear on local Yahoo! sites in other countries.