posted on May 22, 2007 02:16:05 PM new
Have you viewed ebay's user agreement lately? Beginning July 9, 2007 look what you agree to:
"When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future."
posted on May 22, 2007 02:52:59 PM new
They do not have exclusive rights. The content is still yours. If you accept the new policy, you will agree to allow ebay, and its partners the right to broadcast anything you place on their sites, across the known world, within their site, or in advertising - without having to pay you for the use of your guides, blogs, reviews, videos, etc.
posted on May 23, 2007 08:38:12 PM new
Screw e bay, go to Craigslist.org,,,,Many are really cheapoes BUT IF you have the RIGHT Stuff you CAN get YOUR price,,,,, I am.....
posted on May 24, 2007 05:39:38 AM new
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
FWIW, one of my brothers is a music director, and virtually this same paragraph appears in the contract when he signs on to work a show tour. The "any media known now or in the future" seemed amusing when I first saw it, but having seen how fast technology changes, eBay or any other service provider would be foolish not to have this in the user agreement. I would also suspect that this appears in many other online services you use, but nobody bothers to read them.
I am.....