Rebel Noise · Artists beware the corporate giant that is MYSPACE

I know that you all love your Myspace. By now everybody and their mother has their own page. This story may not concern the typical Myspace user but for you artists, musicians, models and various others attempting to promote your small business on MySpace you should read on...

This is from "Overcompensating", a blog by Jeffrey Rowland.

This weekend I had a chance to carefully read Myspace.com's terms of service, and if you are an artist or anyone who has ever put up any of your original work on Myspace.com's servers you should be aware that it is all technically the property of Myspace/Fox/Newscorp forever. While I am aware I am being extremely paranoid, as far as laws go, Myspace has every legal right to publish or distribute any of your work without compensation to you. That's what it means to "granting them a worldwide, royalty-free license."

View the terms of service for yourself.

Check out the complete article and cool comic strip on the Overcompensating page.

Artists beware the corporate giant that is MYSPACE

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