On Orkut

On Orkut

Posted Feb 26, 2004 7:35 UTC (Thu) by gilb (subscriber, #11728)
Parent article: On Orkut

One of the reasons that they have this requirement is that it protects them from potential copyright claims. For example, if they sold the company and database to another company, the would need the "sublicensable, tranferable" terms.

Likewise, if they change the format is some fashion, they need permission from you (e.g. permission to create derivative works).

If you post a patentable idea to the site, you would still retain the right to patent it (you assign rights only to the materials, not the idea) for up to 1 year afterwards in the US.

The IEEE requires a copyright assignment for documents submitted for standards development. They need a broad copyright license to ensure that they will have the right to publish the resulting standard or even to distribute the document among the members.

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