visca - 6:07 pm on Sep 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hey everyone,

The other day I decided to go ahead and submit my site for the Lycos InSite Select service. While completing all the nessesary forms I was eventually ask to agree to their "terms and conditions", so I decided, what the heck, and actually read what I was going to sign to. Luckily I did, the part that left me cold was section 4 which basically gave Lycos FULL AND UNRESITRCTED RIGHTS TO -ALL- OF THE CONTENT OF YOUR WEB SITE INCLUDING "BUT NOT LIMITED TO" TEXT, PICTURES AND SO ON for whatever use they see fit. In other words, they just got the deal of the century by getting me to pay them $30US to own MY content. Here is the wording of the agreement, read it, and then read it again, you will quickly see, they own your content upon clicking that agree button. Am I over reacting or is this scary $hit?

Section of Lycos InSite Select terms and conditions
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4.License.

4.1By You. By making Content available to Lycos pursuant to this Agreement, you grant Lycos a royalty-free, perpetual, nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to: (a) use, copy, store, modify, transmit, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform all such Content; and (b) create, for promotional purposes, collective and derivative works that may include some or all of the Content you provide and, for promotional purposes, to use, copy, store, modify, transmit, distribute, publicly, display, and publicly perform the Content you provide and any derivative or collective works containing or derived from the Content you provide.

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