Inara offers a well thought out opinion on the latest (non-)changes to the TOS.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld
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On Wednesday July 16th the Lab issued an update to Section 2.3 of their Terms of Service. I’ve already provided some feedback on the update and how, thanks to the use of parentheses, it appears to be limited to only addressing the issue of the Lab attempting to sell user-generated content for their own profit; something which is also indicated by the official blog post on the matter being focused solely on that issue as well.
However, there was more I wanted to say on the matter, but which, as an expression of personal opinion, I didn’t want to include in what was essentially a “news” article. So please excuse me if I now take the opportunity of doing so.
I’m actually not at all surprised that the Lab has looked no further than addressing the issue of their selling, reselling or sub-licensing user content. Prior…
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See also Pussycat’s perspective http://catnapkitty.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/victory-is-still-down-the-road-a-bit-but-were-walking-forward-again/
Maybe the details are less important than the trajectory.