SC - OT: Web copyright -- can Earthlink use my material?

[rcmann4 at earthlink.net]

And it came to pass on 3 Feb 01, , that david friedman wrote:

> Note that you are licensing them to do all of those things "as may be 
> reasonably necessary to do so," where "do so" is "include the 
> material on the web site." So I think what the language means is that 
> if they back up their web server, including your files, to tape, you 
> can't sue them for copying your files--even though copying your 
> material without permission would violate your copyright. If they get 
> the message that represents someone else on the web trying to read 
> your page and respond, as they should, by sending a copy of your file 
> to his browser, they aren't violating your copyright. If the HTML 
> file representing your web page doesn't have your name on it, they 
> can send it in response to a browser request without adding your 
> name--thus (if they didn't have permission) arguably violating your 
> rights of attribution. Etc.
> 
> Does the language say somewhere that all those rights you have 
> licensed to them vanish if you decide to give up the account?

I don't see anything to that effect.  Their Internet Use Policy, which 
contains the passage I quoted, is at:
http://foyt.msd.earthlink.net:81/about/policies/accessagrmnt.html


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