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Dispute settled sites at Geocities

The dispute over the rights to the content of the homepages of community serviceGeocities has been settled. The 28th since June applicable newTerms of Geocities, Yahoo has now changed owners a second time.

Among the ancient “Terms of Service” the protesters had feared that allRights to the content of the homepages on Yahoo about to go. More and more usershad then called for a boycott of the company.

Meanwhile, Yahoo has given assurances that the rights it only for thePublication on the Geocities server has. Yahoo also promisedthis scheme can not be changed without the consent of the members. The firstAttempted clarification had rejected as inadequate the home-owners. Yahoohad the conditions set out its principles in order to calm things down.These stated that Yahoo has no rights to the content of the homepages. Yahooreserved but had to change all the rules unilaterally.

Geocities claims to be the fastest growing and largestOnline community in the world. The company enables its members(“Homesteaders”), to provide free web sites into the network.

Contact: Yahoo, Tel: 089/231970

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