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Originally Posted by reid  I'm I the only one to get a bit twitchy, reading the Soundcloud Terms Of Use? The two paragraphs below seem to imply that anything you send through their service becomes for all intents and purposes, public domain.
Someone please put me right if I'm missing something important here!
Grant of License:
USER hereby grants SOUNDCLOUD and its successors and assigns a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, distribute, stream, download and/or otherwise make USER’s Content available to other users of SOUNDCLOUD’s Website and Services.
USER also grants each and every other registered user of SOUNDCLOUD’s Website a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, distribute, stream, download USER's content and/or otherwise to make USER’s Content available to other users of SOUNDCLOUD’s Website and Services as set forth herein. |
Whoa! I never read that.
I will concede that that is downright spooky.
They shouldn't have anything that creepy in there.
Legal departments of services like this always use creepy language that suggests you don't have any rights as a user. Facebook, Myspace. There's always some scary language lurking in the fine print. I thought Soundcloud had a different culture than that, though. It's dismaying, to say the least.
My sense is that that is not the spirit of the site, though. The people behind it seem pretty cool. I think of Soundcloud being run by artists for artistry.
They should probably come on this thread and explain, though. 'Cause I grant you: that whole clause is a little terrifying.
I'll try to see what I can do about flagging their attention to this thread. We'll see what they say.
- c