eBay owns all content on its site
19 June 2007When eBay revised it’s user agreement late last month, very few of us probably read it through. What we would have noticed if we had read it is that eBay claims ownership of everything on it’s blog. Sure, all of the eBay created content is owned by eBay but what about your content? Your auction descriptions, product reviews, about me pages, and your eBay blog entries? All property of eBay.
When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.
So, next time somebody jacks your description or pictures, remember that it wasn’t yours in the first place. It was eBay’s.
Even better is the next section of the agreement.
You will not hold eBay responsible for other users’ actions or inactions, including things they post.
So, let me get this straight. If I post something to eBay, it’s licensed by eBay perpetually. But they aren’t responsible for anything that I post. Even though they license it. Doesn’t quite make sense.
Remember that next time you add anything to the eBay website. It’s eBay’s. Unless it offends or is illegal. Then it’s your fault.
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