Quote: "Don't slam Jimmy. That's a rule for all free webspace if you actually bother to read the fine print."
What? Have you been smoking dope?
Yahoo Geocities
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html
Quote: "7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on your Yahoo GeoCities Site, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities Site on Yahoo's Internet properties. This license exists only for as long as you continue to be a Yahoo GeoCities homesteader and shall be terminated at the time your Yahoo GeoCities Site is terminated. "
Geocities claims it is most definately NOT theirs to own. The only thing it allows them to do is use it to advertise their services. Not to mention as soon as you cancel the account they even lose that right.
Lycos Tripod/Angelfire
http://info.lycos.com/legal/legal.asp
Quote: "7. LICENSE TO USER CONTENT
With respect to any Content posted by or in connection with the Products and Services, you grant Lycos a world-wide, royalty free, perpetual, license to use, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, create derivative works of, and distribute such Content to publish and promote such Content in connection with the particular Products and Services and to publish and promote such Content elsewhere within the Lycos Network. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed."
This one's a little more loosely based, but they still don't claim ownership and again it only permits them to use it for promotion.
Freewebz.com
http://members.freewebs.com/termsOfUse.jsp
Freewebz doesn't even give themselves the right to use your content at all, let alone, own it. Nowhere in the whole Terms of Conditions do they say they can modify it or claim it as their own.
I didn't bother to check anymore because I can't honestly think of anymore free hosting sites. lol. Anyway, the fact that he's giving himself ownership of anything you upload is just plain rediculous, I wouldn't host anything important there and I don't know why anyone else would.
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