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Old 25th March 2009   #17
DSpec1
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Originally Posted by reid View Post
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.
An excellent way to scour the globe for money-making tracks. And, you get to pay a pretty high price to give all rights to your music away. I HAD dropbox and deleted all traces of the account.

Social networking in music moves to the underworld...

Sorry. This really rips me.
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