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Thanks for the warning. As per Plotagon's current terms of use [1] they get the right of first refusal [2] to the user's content. Can someone with a knowledge
by networked 13y ago
Thanks for the warning. As per Plotagon's current terms of use [1] they get the right of first refusal [2] to the user's content. Can someone with a knowledge of copyright law explain whether this would mean they have the right of first refusal to any screenplay you've imported into their software? If so, that's not reasonable. Also, video embedding through non-standard means is prohibited and there is no official mechanism for video embedding. Will one be provided?
The license clauses in question:
>24. Plotagon License to User Intellectual Property
>You agree that Plotagon shall be given the infinite, worldwide and exclusive publishing rights to your User Content created with the Service. Plotagon may also use your User Content and User Texts for marketing purposes and feature them in its services, for example as educational material, in tutorials etc. Plotagon also has the first right of refusal and right of last refusal and matching rights to acquire any additional rights to the User Content.
>25. User License to Plotagon Intellectual Property
>You are hereby given a license to use the Service and the Plotagon Content to create User Content provided however that you abide by all Terms stipulated in these Terms of Use. You are entitled to post your User Content on the Website, and other permitted channels that Plotagon may announce in the future. You are not entitled to post your User Content on other, non-permitted websites, media, social networks or show the works embedded on other websites, except through functionality specifically provided by Plotagon to do so.
[1] https://plotagon.com/terms https://plotagon.com/terms (last updated: August 8, 2013)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_first_refusal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_first_refusal
- gaius 13y agoWow. Imagine if Microsoft put the same nonsense in the Word license, it would have been stillborn. Or is this the plan all along, an IP grab...?
- captaincrowbar 13y agoCrap. I thought this looked promising and started downloading it before I saw these terms. I won't waste time trying it now, with those ridiculous restrictions there's no point in bothering.