Comments on: Copyright Rights & Licenses http://www.iplawforstartups.com/copyright-rights-licenses/ Lessons on trade secret, trademark, copyright & patent law for entrepreneurs Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:12:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Is having something copyright on your website against the law? http://www.iplawforstartups.com/copyright-rights-licenses/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Is having something copyright on your website against the law? Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:01:23 +0000 http://www.iplawforstartups.com/?p=90#comment-91 [...] Copyright Rights & Licenses (iplawforstartups.com) [...] [...] Copyright Rights & Licenses (iplawforstartups.com) [...]

]]> By: Jill Hubbard Bowman http://www.iplawforstartups.com/copyright-rights-licenses/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Jill Hubbard Bowman Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:44:34 +0000 http://www.iplawforstartups.com/?p=90#comment-90 When people upload content to the major social sites they have to agree to a type of "Terms of Use" contract. MySpace.com's Terms as just one example where you must agree to give them a limited license to your content to participate in the site. You still own the copyright to the Content (assuming that you owned the copyright in the first place) and they just have a limited license. Essentially a license is just an agreement not to sue them for copyright infringement. When people upload content to the major social sites they have to agree to a type of “Terms of Use” contract. MySpace.com’s Terms as just one example where you must agree to give them a limited license to your content to participate in the site. You still own the copyright to the Content (assuming that you owned the copyright in the first place) and they just have a limited license. Essentially a license is just an agreement not to sue them for copyright infringement.

]]> By: Lev Peker http://www.iplawforstartups.com/copyright-rights-licenses/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Lev Peker Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:34:59 +0000 http://www.iplawforstartups.com/?p=90#comment-89 Jill, just to make sure I understand this correctly, in the myspace example who actually owns the posting? Is it me as the user and I am just giving myspace permision to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute. Thanks in advance. Jill,

just to make sure I understand this correctly, in the myspace example who actually owns the posting? Is it me as the user and I am just giving myspace permision to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute.

Thanks in advance.

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