Nothing Like a New Media Revolution Where They OWN You

by Paul Colligan on July 20, 2006

From BoingBoing.

Did you read this in YouTube.com’s new terms of service?

…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.

What have we learned here?

Own your own content. You might have to pay a few bucks for hosting but, people, own your content.

Prediction: More fine print reading in the new few weeks that will lead to some more interesting “findings.”

  • I've always been for truth in adversing and descriptive naming. So, maybe a name change is the next step... just use a synonym and reverse the words and you get HoseYou...
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