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MSN Selling Users' Images as Merchandise

Posted by michael on from the how-much-are-your-baby-pictures-worth dept.

TK421 writes "From this week's ResearchBuzz: "Sometime over a year ago, Yahoo bought GeoCities and changed the user agreement to something that seemed to remove a lot of the GeoCities users' intellectual property rights. At the time, Yahoo assured everyone they wouldn't inappropriately use content from GeoCities, but changed the user agreement under pressure. Now Mercury Center is reporting that folks who belong to the MSN Web communities are susceptible to having their pictures copied from community sites and put on merchandise sold by Microsoft and its partners.""

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  1. Geocities, Hmm? by human+bean · · Score: 3

    Looking at Geocities' typical web content mix, does this make Microsoft the world's largest dealer of badly produced amateur porn?

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