[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Rhizome.org Member Agreement

[Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com>]

Not to mention the possibility of Rhizome's content finding its way into
the maw of TimeWarnerAOLMTV someday, whether by sale or lawsuit or
whatever. Alternative websites come and go, but foresworn creator's
rights are forever.

YOYOW is still your best friend.

Carl

Mark Dery wrote:
> 
> Agree with Declan. The first part of the clause---the request that Rhizome
> be able to archive your contributions to its collective work in
> perpetuity---is standard boilerplate for websites, and harmless enough.
> It's the last part---"and (iii) reproduce, publish, perform, display,
> adapt, distribute or otherwise make available Your Content in web sites,
> books, CD-ROMs or any other form or medium whatsoever, whether now known
> or as may hereafter be developed"---with its (at least theoretical)
> potential for generating revenue for Rhizome from the sale of someone
> else's intellectual property that seems grabby---not to mention weirdly
> hegemonic, in the good old _New York Times_-ian sense, for a site that
> wraps itself in the mantle of Mister Destratification, Gilles Deleuze.
> 
> M. Dery
> 

-- 
Happiness is the maximum agreement between reality and desire -- Joseph
Stalin

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