qL invades Your Work & Privacy

Jun 02, 2008 - 21:40 PM PST

The following says qL can use your creativity without giving you any credit or cash. Not only that, but they can erase any of your content.

Recently, Adobe was faced with a similar issue.

I hope the lawyers of a company intended to help artists and activists come together, merely goofed and will fix this serious issue.

In the mean time, I suggest you protect your work on another website with this license.

The QUARTERLIFE, INC. ("Company" Terms of Use (http://www.quarterlife.com/terms):

5. CONTENT POSTED ON WEBSITE.

c. If you post Content to any public area of Website or submit any Content, including, without limitation, any scripts, treatments, casting reels, video clips, or Mash-ups via the Website, you automatically grant to Company, its licensees, successors, and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free worldwide license to use, reproduce, publicly perform, display, modify, adapt, repurpose, alter, edit, publish, translate, distribute, access, view, store, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and/or otherwise exploit such Content, or any part thereof, including but not limited to any copyrighted material, and your name, image, voice and likeness, for any purpose and in any form, media, or technology, whether now known or later developed, including but not limited to featuring such Content, name, image, voice or likeness on any page of the Website or on a third party website or mobile application, or in connection with any television program/series, motion picture, web or mobile program/series, or in any marketing, promotional materials or advertisements, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing (the "License". You further agree to permit anyone to access, display, view, store and reproduce such Content for personal use. You further agree to permit Company to display, feature, integrate, or exhibit advertisements in connection with Content, including, without limitation, banner advertisements, and pre-roll, post-roll, and interstitial video advertisements. You further waive any and all so-called "Moral Rights" or similar rights of any jurisdiction, now or hereafter recognized, with respect to Company"s exercise of such right and license.

d. By posting any information about or photographs, videos or images of yourself on the Website and/or through the Service, you thereby waive any rights of privacy or publicity to such information, photographs, videos or images. In connection with your applicable submissions via the Website, you hereby irrevocably grant to Company the nonexclusive right to photograph, film, tape or otherwise record or capture your physical likeness and movements in any manner it desires, to use your name (or a fictitious name) and biographical data, and to record and reproduce your voice and other sound effects in any medium (now or hereafter known). Without in any way limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge that Company has the right to change, modify or manipulate your name, likeness, movements and voice in connection with its exercise of said rights. You agree that Company shall have sole discretion in determining the extent and manner of use of your name, likeness or anything else granted herein and that Company is not obligated in any way to use your name, likeness or anything else granted herein or any portion thereof in any medium.

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