BoingBoing reader Cassandra Fleetwood asks:
Do you know of a site to post photos where one still retains ownership of their photos? I noticed this is not the case for Textamerica (see excerpt from their Terms and Conditions below).
From Textamerica Terms and Conditions
"12. All images and comments posted on Textamerica.com, regardless of the source or content, immediately shall become the exclusive property of Liberation Management LLC. By posting images and text on Textamerica.com, you are representing that you are the owner of such images/text and thereby assign to Liberation Management LLC any ownership interests you have in the images/text, including your copyrights. By posting images or comments on Textamerica.com, you further agree that Liberation Management LLC shall have the right to use your images/text for any purpose without compensation to you and shall not be responsible to you for unauthorized copying of the images/text."
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Update: Textamerica responds by removing the phrase "All images and comments posted on Textamerica.com, regardless of the source or content, immediately shall become the exclusive property of Liberation Management LLC" from the service terms and conditions. The moral of this blog-post? With this or any online service, read the site terms and conditions carefully, and be aware that, as Textamerica's site states, "[They] may change from time to time." .
