MySpace Owns Your Music

[BrotherLovesDub]

If you have music on MySpace, you probably haven't read the T&C, although you should. MySpace now owns the rights to your music, to do as they see fit, including using it in commercials or on compilations without owing you a penny. Enjoy!

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=34570397&blogID=122481288&MyToken=6be9856e-7872-4c59-9aab-d75cc2a65170

http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=1510286

[BeautifulBurnout]

I am disgusted but not in the least surprised. :mad:

[mmm skyscraper]

Myspace has changed this

MySpace.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the MySpace Services.

Without this license, MySpace.com would be unable to provide the MySpace Services. For example, without the right to modify Member Content, MySpace.com would not be able to digitally compress music files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member Content, MySpace.com could not allow Users to listen to music posted by Members. The license you grant to MySpace.com is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to MySpace.com), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that MySpace.com is not required to pay you for the use on the MySpace Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that MySpace.com is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the MySpace Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the MySpace Services are global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from the MySpace Services. The license does not grant MySpace.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant MySpace.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the MySpace Services.

http://collect.myspace.com/misc/terms.html?z=1

[Professor]

well, they do provide a service...and that service has to cost something. they are keeping it a self maintaining entity. i don't think it's such a bad deal to have them monkey with music for the benifit of keeping the site alive, particularly when they credit the artist. i'm not paying for myspace...so they can add a cheesy vocal over any song of mine that they want....

i like the bubble i live in. no revolution...no revolution

[Dirty0900]

Well Mr Media did pay a lot for it, he'll need to exploit something at some point. Maybe Tom will get his own show! Is he even real?