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Sample Contract Clause

What it says:

Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Service.

Clause Type:

• Non-Exclusive Use
• New Media Rights
• Changes to the Work
• Duration of Grant

For:

• User Generated Content Submissions
• Photographers

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What it means:

This is the license to post material on Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service. It gives Yahoo! rights to use and to modify the photographs a user posts, but the user retains the copyright in the work and the license ends once the photographer ceases to post the image on the site.