Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings 160
Bill Dimm writes "Craigslist now demands an exclusive license to the content you post there. How many people are aware that they are agreeing not to post their job ads, rentals, items for sale, etc. anywhere else when they post to Craigslist?"
It's not going out on much a limb to suspect this is to strengthen Craigslist's position against those extension sites they love so much.
That's not what it says (Score:4, Interesting)
They are claiming exclusivity to the content not intent. Change your verbiage when you post to eBay and you're good.
Craigslist is a shithole (Score:5, Interesting)
Another one down (Score:3, Interesting)
That's insane. I've used Craigslist quite a lot for various things, but I'm not about to give them (or anyone else who hasn't hired me to produce something for them) exclusive rights to anything whatsoever.
So, I guess Craigslist effectively no longer exists for me. I'm not angry or upset with CL about this, merely disappointed that they've made their TOS so unacceptable to me that I can't use them. I can't wait for the service that comes to replace it!
I don't think this is legally valid (Score:5, Interesting)
Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.
Is this legally enough for Craigslist? Wouldn't they need a full copyright assignment in order to pursue copyright infringement claims?
I bet if questioned in court, such a claim would be thrown out due to lack of standing, since copyright ownership would belong to the writer of the post, not with Craigslist. After all, that was the reasoning that killed Righthaven [slashdot.org] when they tried to make a similar deal with their newspaper clients.