January 2, 2004
Photoblogging/phonecamblogging services: watch the terms and conditions...
A couple of days ago, Xeni Jardin posted a question by one of boingboing's readers on who actually owns the rights to images and texts posted on moblogs. Apparently on
Textamerica, "all images and comments posted, regardless of the source or content, immediately shall become their exclusive property". (cf Textamerica's Terms and Conditions).
It's creating quite a stir, but clearly this is simply legal jargon that should be rectified to protect both parties.
[Update] Textamerica responded by removing the phrase.
[mea culpa] As Chris Hoar from Textamerica pointed out to me in an e-mail, the phrase was removed before I even posted this story on picturephoning.com. Apologies Chris!
But though this is no longer an issue on Textamerica, photobloggers at least have been made aware that it's important to read the small print with regard to copyrights.
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