AOL UK Terms & Copyright Stealing
Posted: 07th May, 2003 By: MarkJ
Customers of AOL UK are up in arms after the ISP published a number of changes to its Conditions of Service (CoS). One in particular appears to give the ISP ownership of any material posted by its customers:
One AOL UK punter told us: "I belong to the AOL UK Writers' Group and other writers' groups on AOL are up in arms about it. This is not even AOL offering to pay us anything but saying they will and can steal our copyright."
So, what's got their collective literary goat? It's this excerpt from the new CoS that appears to have triggered their concerns:
By submitting content to public areas of AOL (such as message boards and chat rooms) you represent that you have permission to do so. And in doing so, you grant AOL Group Companies a licence to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that content in any form, anywhere, and waive all moral rights (namely, the right to be identified as the author, and the right to integrity, of the content) and undertake that all such moral rights have been waived in respect of the content. You also grant other users the right to use such content for personal, non-commercial purposes.
AOL UK has since admitted that the matter could have been handled better, yet denies that the new CoS gives the ISP ownership of material posted on its service.
Unfortunately this is often the problem with posting such material on the 'public' Internet. Despite that, AOLs new term changes still seem somewhat stronger than necessary. More @ The Register.
One AOL UK punter told us: "I belong to the AOL UK Writers' Group and other writers' groups on AOL are up in arms about it. This is not even AOL offering to pay us anything but saying they will and can steal our copyright."
So, what's got their collective literary goat? It's this excerpt from the new CoS that appears to have triggered their concerns:
By submitting content to public areas of AOL (such as message boards and chat rooms) you represent that you have permission to do so. And in doing so, you grant AOL Group Companies a licence to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that content in any form, anywhere, and waive all moral rights (namely, the right to be identified as the author, and the right to integrity, of the content) and undertake that all such moral rights have been waived in respect of the content. You also grant other users the right to use such content for personal, non-commercial purposes.
AOL UK has since admitted that the matter could have been handled better, yet denies that the new CoS gives the ISP ownership of material posted on its service.
Unfortunately this is often the problem with posting such material on the 'public' Internet. Despite that, AOLs new term changes still seem somewhat stronger than necessary. More @ The Register.
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