Dear Ven. Pandita,

the clause only relates your activities (i.e. submissions/sharing of content) to Yahoo! licensing. In particular, the end of clause 9 states that:

"publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services would not include portions of Yahoo! Groups that are limited to members"

Reading this in conjunction with the rest of the clause, when you upload your writings ONLY in the Files section, you are NOT granting Yahoo! a "worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license".

There are other clauses covering infringement of copyright and intellectual property (IP).

I have to say I am no legal expert on issues of licensing, copyright & IP. I suggest you consult your publisher or a legal advisor.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, ashinpan wrote:

I have done so, and I am confused by the following:

"However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
a. With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo! Services solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. "

As far as I understand it, it is applicable to my papers uploaded here thus: any member can cite parts of my paper in the Group discussion or make a modified version for use in the Group only. Is it correct?