Re: Sick of XOOM or GeoCities? - BUT XOOM GIVES OUT FREE 100 Megabytes!

From: "Jeremy Reaban" <frankpul@stlnet.com>

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Alan D Kohler wrote in message <37101018.26240748@news.olg.com>...
<snip>
>They also a) inundate you with spam for "web clip empire" or some
>other stupid peice of garbage, and b) make you give up rights to your
>pages as parts of TOS. What utter BS.
>
>I'll take about anyone over XOOM.

Yeah, the spamming can be annoying, but it can be avoided. I signed up a
with a free email address, and it sends it there.

But you don't give your rights to your pages - not really. You just give
Xoom the right to put your pages on their server. They don't actually own
the stuff - you do.  I imagine it's there so you can't sue them for
copyright infringement, because it could be argued that they are publishing
your work (and they don't get permission for each item)

Here's the relevent section...decide for yourself...

"You grant to XOOM.com and its affiliates a royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy,
modify, transmit , distribute, and publicly perform or display the submitted
pages or other content for
 the purposes of displaying such information on XOOM.com's sites and for the
 promotion and marketing of XOOM.com's services. XOOM.com disclaims
ownership of member sites and will not resell or otherwise convey these
rights to any third party."

References

Sick of XOOM or GeoCities? Fast Free Web Hosting!
bloodly@my-dejanews.com
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Sick of XOOM or GeoCities? - BUT XOOM GIVES OUT FREE 100 Megabytes!
"cybermessiah" <cybermessiah@geocities.com>
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Sick of XOOM or GeoCities? - BUT XOOM GIVES OUT FREE 100 Megabytes!
hawkwind@REMOVE2REPLY.olg.com (Alan D Kohler)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000