Monday, May 31st, 2010 06:43 am
from battle.net terms of use?
So if you happen to write a poem and send it to your friends via WoW chat, then you grant Blizzard a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, paid-up, non-exclusive, license for that poem and waive any moral rights you may have for it. If you tell something to your friend that you want to share only with that friend via WoW chat, then you give Blizzard the right to publish, transmit, publicly display, broadcast that information.
"To the extent permitted by applicable laws"? This whole paragraph violates several laws! It's null and void.
What did Blizzard call their RealID thing? "A New Way to Connect With Your Friends on Battle.net"? More like A New Way To Rob Naive Players Of Their Author's Rights And Privacy.
11.4 User Content. “Content” means any communications, images, sounds, and all the material and information that you upload or transmit through a Game client or the Service, or that other users upload or transmit, including without limitation any chat text. You hereby grant Blizzard a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, paid-up, non-exclusive, license, including the right to sublicense to third parties, and right to reproduce, fix, adapt, modify, translate, reformat, create derivative works from, manufacture, introduce into circulation, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, transfer, rent, lease, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, or provide access to electronically, broadcast, communicate to the public by telecommunication, display, perform, enter into computer memory, and use and practice such Content as well as all modified and derivative works thereof. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, you hereby waive any moral rights you may have in any Content.
So if you happen to write a poem and send it to your friends via WoW chat, then you grant Blizzard a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, paid-up, non-exclusive, license for that poem and waive any moral rights you may have for it. If you tell something to your friend that you want to share only with that friend via WoW chat, then you give Blizzard the right to publish, transmit, publicly display, broadcast that information.
"To the extent permitted by applicable laws"? This whole paragraph violates several laws! It's null and void.
What did Blizzard call their RealID thing? "A New Way to Connect With Your Friends on Battle.net"? More like A New Way To Rob Naive Players Of Their Author's Rights And Privacy.