The fine print

[hummingbird]

Exactly. I'm on a fair number of Indie sites but I always read the fine print first. And it is fine print, it's usually really hard to read and really long. So my secret is.... I copy and paste it into an email and adjust the text size so I can actually read it. I've been signing up for more than one site and caught the 'right to use'.... I mean, understand we are giving them the right to broadcast our music in streamings royalty-free, but this idea that they can modify our work or use it to promote themselves, etc implies something else to me.

[Casey H]

Quote:Casey, Think that one was bad, look at this one (a small section of a very long contract). Company name changed to YYY:"With respect to any Content posted by or in connection with the Products and Services, you hereby grant YYY a world-wide, royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual license, alone or together or as part of other information, Content and/or material of any kind or nature, to use, copy, modify, publish, edit, translate, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit such Content (specifically including through streaming, podcasting, online/broadcast and satellite radio, suggested playlists and User playlists, but specifically excluding through phonograph records), to publish and promote such Content in connection with the particular Products and Services (including, without limitation, for advertising and promotional purposes), to publish and promote such Content elsewhere within YYY or any other YYY website through links to YYY, and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses, all without any obligation to you, whether by way of compensation, attribution or otherwise. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed."Damn! I used to have 6 kids... Only 2 left... Can't sign any more contracts... Casey

[hookstownbrown]

Quote:Casey, Think that one was bad, look at this one (a small section of a very long contract). Company name changed to YYY:"With respect to any Content posted by or in connection with the Products and Services, you hereby grant YYY a world-wide, royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual license, alone or together or as part of other information, Content and/or material of any kind or nature, to use, copy, modify, publish, edit, translate, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit such Content (specifically including through streaming, podcasting, online/broadcast and satellite radio, suggested playlists and User playlists, but specifically excluding through phonograph records), to publish and promote such Content in connection with the particular Products and Services (including, without limitation, for advertising and promotional purposes), to publish and promote such Content elsewhere within YYY or any other YYY website through links to YYY, and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses, all without any obligation to you, whether by way of compensation, attribution or otherwise. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed."Wow! That first one was riddled with question marks, but this second one is blatant. These guys don't even try to hide the fact that they are scoundrels. For that, they get my fully disclosed disgust...

[booker]

Yeah... it sounds dicey to me... so to be safe, I uploaded some of Hookstowns stuff, and just took credit for it. If it all pans out, I'll load some of my own.