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Old 26th March 2009   #22
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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.
Nothing is ever free and you must ALWAYS read the terms of service before you buy into anything online!

These guys seem to be rational enough to change this in the interest of user growth. It is likely they had a lawyer write that up and didn't actually read it themselves.
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