Bad Scene

Hate to bring this up again, but one of the things that has soothed my ruffled feathers about Orkut’s ToS is the feeling, to an extent confirmed by research, that most sites like this have similarly restrictive ToS’s. But then I checked out Flickr. And I was pleasantly surprised! Is there some compelling reason why Orkut doesn’t have something like this? Shit, man!

From Flickr’s ToS:

Copyright (What’s Yours is Yours)

* We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Flickr service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any private images you have stored in the system. However, by setting your uploaded images as “public”, you agree to allow other Flickr users to view and share your images and you therefore agree to allow us to display and store them.
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* We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider licensing their creations under less draconian terms than have become standard in most jurisdictions. Accordingly, we offer the ability to mark your content as belonging to the public domain or as licensed under a Creative Commons license.