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Important Warning: Never Send Intellectual Property Over Instant Messenger

by Joel Falconer

It’s important that you do not send your intellectual property over instant messenger at any time. AOL/AIM, for instance, claims the following rights over anything you send through:

“irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt, and promote this Content in any medium.”

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger doesn’t make things any better - you grant it permission to:

“use, copy, distribute, display, publish and modify your submission, each in connection with the service; publish your name in connection with your submission; and grant these permissions to other persons.”

If you send a file through any of these programs, you lose your exclusive rights to it (if you owned the intellectual property to begin with). If you discuss sensitive plans, ideas or campaigns for your project, these can be used or published. It’s scary enough that they can monitor your discussions to begin with.

What should you use? Use Skype. It’s peer to peer, it’s secure and it doesn’t claim any rights in your intellectual property. Steer clear of using standard instant messengers to discuss or share your material, because if someone’s watching, you might not get it back.


Posted in Artists & Society on August 29th, 2007

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