What About Live Journal?

[glenmered]

mrua7 sent me an except from an email she received with emphasis on certain conditions of the new LJ agreement.  I'm writing this initially on Dreamwidth and copying it to LJ.
Please feel as free as you can to comment, either on LJ or at DW.  If you don't have a Dreamwidth account you can go www.dreamwidth.org
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"Basically they're saying the site has the right to take anything we post on LJ and use it as well as alter it as they see fit.   That holds true for private messaging too....

addendum about the new agreement. Credit to lj user kirathaune, who inserted the bold type.

Of particular note - CREATORS, PAY ATTENTION TO THIS:

 

“9. Content

9.1. By posting Content, User shall:

9.11. Guarantee to the Administration that Content and terms of its appearance on the Service meets all the requirements of the applicable laws, that User has received all rights and permits necessary to post such a Content;

9.12. In respect of any Content which constitutes intellectual property, User provides to the Administration a non-exclusive (simple) license to use his/her Content in order to provide the Service by reproducing his/her Content as well as by making it public for the entire period the Content is posted on the Service. If User participates in any rankings or if User’s Content is used in any editorial projects of the Service, User provides to the Administration an additional authorisation to modify, shorten and amend his/her Content, to add images, a preamble, comments or any clarifications to his/her Content while using it, and in certain cases based on the Service functions, an authorisation to use User’s Content anonymously.”

Also, in the definition of Terms, section 3:

“Content means User`s information within the Service, including any information published during the process of Registration, in Blogs and Communities as a note or comment as well as sent by User in private messages using the Service.”
 

Comments

I am not happy!

[lilidelafield]

As commented on LJ, I am very unhappy with the liberties that the new agreement seems to be taking, and I am very tempted to cancel my membership there forthwith...perhaps I am reading too much into it? I don't like the assumed agreement of plaguerism either...

Re: I am not happy!

[glenmered]

I agree it seems troublesome. We are importing all of the S7 entries into this site, although it takes a few hours. If you do purge your LJ account, everything on your personal page will be unavailable. Under US copyright laws, I believe that just publishing a work protects it, so all of this might be unnecessary were we subject to that. I'm not sure about anything international, or web related. I guess it wouldn't hurt to start googling in pursuit of answers.