PSA

[sarea]

The LJ Crush Meme:

Hopefully those of you who have created accounts haven't used passwords you'd use anywhere else. I'm always suspicious of anything where I need to enter/create information like that, especially when there's really no reason for having to do it.

Maybe you've read their TOS and you're okay with it -- but for those of you who haven't yet done it but are considering it, make sure you know this:

LJmeme.com's proprietary rights

By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the LJmeme.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, display and or sell such Materials. By posting said information, including personal information, you grant us full ownership over it for any purpose. This is an object lesson. Don't give out information you don't want other people to see without reading the fine print.

Nice lesson. So for those of you who aren't like me and don't go looking for the fine print, there it is.

Comments

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I was concerned less about the passwords thing (as those can be changed) than I was about this: posting or displaying any Materials on or through the LJmeme.com service -- does that mean including all of the information on our LJs?

Like seldon said, I doubt they're going to do anything truly reprehensible, but still. I also hate that it's 'hidden.' Most people are okay with most things if they know about it, and go in with their eyes open, but places should be up front about things like this. Of course, that wasn't the point, if their snotty "this is why you should read the fine print" statement is any indication.