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AIM users--check this out
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vegan_volition alerted me to this.
AOL's Terms of Service give them the right to your "content"--including the content of your IMs:
"You may only post Content that you created or which the owner of the Content has given you. You may not post or distribute Content that is illegal or that violates these Terms of Service. By posting or submitting Content on any AIM Product, you represent and warrant that (i) you own all the rights to this Content or are authorized to use and distribute this Content on the AIM Product and (ii) this Content does not and will not infringe any copyright or any other third-party right nor violate any applicable law or regulation. Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses."
This is confusing to me. On the one hand, it says, "Do not steal anything and then post it on AOL." But then it adds, "But if you post something of yours on AOL, then we can steal it from you."
So, basically, the first rule of internet privacy applies: there isn't any. Don't post anything, even in an IM, that you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
vegan_volition alerted me to this.AOL's Terms of Service give them the right to your "content"--including the content of your IMs:
"You may only post Content that you created or which the owner of the Content has given you. You may not post or distribute Content that is illegal or that violates these Terms of Service. By posting or submitting Content on any AIM Product, you represent and warrant that (i) you own all the rights to this Content or are authorized to use and distribute this Content on the AIM Product and (ii) this Content does not and will not infringe any copyright or any other third-party right nor violate any applicable law or regulation. Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses."
This is confusing to me. On the one hand, it says, "Do not steal anything and then post it on AOL." But then it adds, "But if you post something of yours on AOL, then we can steal it from you."
So, basically, the first rule of internet privacy applies: there isn't any. Don't post anything, even in an IM, that you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
