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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Yahoo backs away from we-own-your-Geocities-web-
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- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:08:35 +0100
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:43:08 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Yahoo backs away from we-own-your-Geocities-web-site rules
Reply-to: declan@well.com
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20518.html
Yahoo: Your Homestead's Your Own
by Declan McCullagh
4:30 p.m. 30.Jun.99.PDT
In response to a boycott and criticism
from outraged customers, Yahoo late
Wednesday abandoned rules that had
given it eternal ownership of all Geocities
Web sites.
"We're seeing how we can clarify our
intentions, given the recent outcry," said
Tim Brady, Yahoo vice president of
production.
[...]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20472.html
Yahoo: Your House Is My House
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 29.Jun.99.PDT
If you're a GeoCities homesteader, be
warned: Your Web site is no longer your
own.
Yahoo, which launched its
Yahoo-GeoCities site Monday, says it
owns all Web pages, articles, and images
on member sites and has "irrevocable"
rights to them for all time.
[...]
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