Am I wrong??????.....

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January 6th 2012 11:58 am
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I kind of have a question I hope I’m wrong.........I invited one cat from You Tube but they declined because they were worried about one of the conditions for joining. Apparently it says...

"Catster.com's proprietary rights

By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the catster.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, right to publicly display or re-display such Materials in other formats not simply limited to websites."

He then said..

The above means they own your photos and can publish books, calendar, greeting cards or anything of your photos for a profit and pay you nothing for it.

I can see where he’s coming from.

I think these guys would love Catster if it wasn’t for that clause and how it’s written.
http://www.youtube.com/user/utahactor

I hope it isn’t the case and we the cat-tographers retain exclusive rights for our photos. I understand that Catster can use our photos in other things like newsletters, the front page and other things to do with Catster. That’s fun and used in good faith on the site we use. But to use our photos for monitory gain elsewhere I think would be wrong.
Am I wrong????????? I hope so.

Also about the ads, I know there are many that are complaining about the new roll over ones and how they chew up the bandwidth.

I can understand that, I had real big problems last year that my catputer couldn’t handle catster and the pages wouldn’t load.
I needed an upgrade, well the catputer was dying anyway so it needed something to be done with it.

There used to be a flashing one (ad) I wrote to Catster and told them it wasn’t nice and hard on the eyes.

I’m not sure if they were listening but I’m sure pleased they are no longer there, I’m just hoping they don’t come back.

I know many cats use software to remove the ads but that’s crazy, what about those just joining that don’t know the tricks. No wonder there aren't too many new cats joining. It’s too hard to use and it’s no fun if you can’t get the site (Catster).

I wonder if there is a way they can make the ads smaller, as in... they don’t take up as much energy to run. Or have them static. Do they listen to our comments? I know they used to, they were great and it felt like we could contact them. But I’m not sure anymore as it all seems so much cooler now. * D pouts*

We love Catster it’s fun here, though I have to admit the human was very busy last year, and we didn’t get as much us time on Catster. *D pouts again* So sorry we haven't been around much.

We hope all is good with our fur-riends and I hope this year has started out well for you all.
Many purrs from us

Purred by: DA TABBIES O TROUT TOWNE (Catster Member)

January 6th 2012 at 12:19 pm

dood !!!

hope all is well down under N ewe N yur familee R livin large and in charge and R startin de mew yeer off happy, healthy N blessed... :)

N noe, ewe iz knot wrong; though we trooth full lee dont remember de inz N outz of when we joined; az far az de above clauz....

hhhhmmmmm

mite be time ta reely start using imikimi full force on everee thing; knot just R bak grounds but on R pick sures two....

hope ewe haza pawsum evening...happy summer buddy tho its reeely been a mild winter heer..sew far !!

peace out N rock on :)

Purred by: Nuk Anuk (Catster Member)

January 6th 2012 at 12:35 pm

YouTube has pretty much the same clause

6. Your Content and Conduct
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service.

Purred by: ❀ Jezebel DG 29 ❀ (Catster Member)

January 6th 2012 at 2:13 pm

I am really tired of the roll-over ads - they take up the whole page if you accidently go anywhere near them!

Purred by: Mr D - D'boat #19 HOME AGAIN! (Catster Member)

January 6th 2012 at 6:40 pm

Thanks Da tabs, I hope it's all innocent and nothing to worry about.

Thanks Nuk Anuk for pointing out it's the same on You Tube. It must be the standard clause, that's a bit of a relief.

And Thanks Jezebel, your right about them. I'm not sure what Catster can do as I know they need to get some funds in to run the site. I sure wish they were nicer though.

Purred by: Zachery Kolohe' Rider (Catster Member)

January 6th 2012 at 6:57 pm

You are right, we don't see the ads ever but some newbies to computers wouldn't know how to get rid of them. You are so right.

And the clause is spooky but I would surely hope they wouldn't do anything like that. It's probably just basic mumbo jumbo.

Purred by: Milo away from catster (Catster Member)

January 28th 2012 at 1:25 pm

Sorry bro, We missed seeing this. Don't have much to add.
As Zach said it's probably standard mambo jumbo.
As for ads, the only way we can fight them is with Ad Block Plus
and use Firefox as a browser. I can't worry about newbies.Once upon a time we were all new here. If you really want to be a part of this pawsome community, you learn, I guess.