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Can anyone here tell me about thisisby.us? (Their motto: "Write for the world. Get paid.")
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I trust everyone can see the contradiction in these two adjacent sentences from their Terms and Conditions page.
"You retain all copyright to all original user content you submit to the Site. By posting, uploading, or otherwise transmitted user content to the Site, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, and fully sublicensable and transferable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such User Content in any media, now known or hereafter devised."
"By submitting any material to Toowrite Young Writers members are:
--representing that they are the sole author of that entry and are fully entitled to enter their work; and
--grant AND a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, sub-licence, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere in the world; and
--authorise AND to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive all of your moral rights including the right to be identified as the author of the material in question.
Members also agree that AND may use entries on other websites owned or managed by AND, including www.ukplus.co.uk. Members agree that AND may also forward entries to regional newspapers for publication and on a royalty-free basis."
I trust everyone can see the contradiction in these two adjacent sentences from their Terms and Conditions page.
"You retain all copyright to all original user content you submit to the Site. By posting, uploading, or otherwise transmitted user content to the Site, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, and fully sublicensable and transferable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such User Content in any media, now known or hereafter devised."
thisisby.us has discontinued operation as of February 1 2009.
thisisby.us has thrived as a writing community since its launch in the Spring of 2006. We have seen over 50,000 posts by over 15,000 different writers, numerous (self-organized) meet-ups around the country, and dozens of features on some of the Internet's most popular websites.
Sadly, thisisby.us could not be economically sustained. Though the site attracted a base of dedicated writers, the advertising market that caters to writers is neither large nor fast-growing; even given alternative business models, we could not afford the maintenance and labor required to sustain TIBU.
If you have any remaining questions regarding your thisisby.us account, you can e-mail [email protected].
Again, we cannot tell you how sad we are to announce this. We are extremely proud of the community we have built at thisisby.us. We hope that you will continue to practice the art of writing through other venues.
All our best,
bill and Elle Dee