Is It True That Paypal Will Soon Own Our Work?

here's what i just read :
1.3 Privacy of Others; Marketing. If you receive Information about another User through the PayPal Services, you must keep the Information confidential and only use it in connection with the PayPal Services. You may not disclose or distribute a User's Information to a third party or use the Information for marketing purposes unless you receive the User's express consent to do so.

You may not send unsolicited email to a User or use the PayPal Services to collect payments for sending, or assisting in sending, unsolicited email to third parties.




1.4 Intellectual Property. "PayPal.com", "PayPal", and all logos related to the PayPal Services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of PayPal or PayPal's licensors. You may not copy, imitate or use them without PayPal's prior written consent. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of PayPal. You may not copy, imitate, or use them without our prior written consent. You may use HTML logos provided by PayPal through our Merchant services, auction tools features or affiliate programs without prior written consent for the purpose of directing web traffic to the PayPal Services. You may not alter, modify or change these HTML logos in any way, use them in a manner that is disparaging to PayPal or the PayPal Services or display them in any manner that implies PayPal's sponsorship or endorsement. All right, title and interest in and to the PayPal website, any content thereon, the PayPal Services, the technology related to the PayPal Services, and any and all technology and any content created or derived from any of the foregoing is the exclusive property of PayPal and its licensors.

Use the search before you post. Oh and the google. You may have heard of it.

You missed the part in the small print where you are also going to have to turn your first boron over to them and the first boron of the first born. I think they are also going to lay claim to the your grandmothers secret receipt for cornbread and her famous thanksgiving dressing,too. lol

If you do some research you'll find this is nothing new, it's already in the TOS just in a different section and worded a bit differently. The reality is nearly any online service you use has a similar clause, even FAA. It's basically there to protect the service provider from a customer posting content without the copyright owner's permission and also to allow them to use content for marketing purposes.

Seriously?? Lol. FB posts like this are fabricated by someone who has too much idle time.

This ca,e up in my Twitter feed - @askpaypal was answering various questions from some celebrity with very many concerns, and basically repeating that they'll look into it. There were probably others

I think probably Susan saw this text on Facebook and yes, there is an issue - I copied full text of quote:

"PayPal Users - Read the new change of condition notice:

“When providing us with content or posting content (in each case for publication, whether on- or off-line) using the Services, you grant the PayPal Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, database rights and intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights against the PayPal Group, its sublicensees or assignees. You represent and warrant that none of the following infringe any intellectual property right: your provision of content to us, your posting of content using the Services, and the PayPal Group’s use of such content (including of works derived from it) in connection with the Services.”

For artists and photographers who have already fought off this kind of corporate greed from Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Pinterest and others... SAY NO!
Please share and fight back! "

No it's not true in they don't OWN it

They can use your logo you upload to them. They need full permissions to then display this and they may use it in their advertising (use mine PLEASE PayPal.!)

But any site needs full permissions or it's not allowed to publish

Abbie, honestly I couldnt get a real situation and how it works so I gave the full quote as it is, cant put my comments as this point is quiet complicated for me.

@Abbie -- I'm with you!

Nothing would please me more than if all of my online 'partners' would start slapping my logo/avatar/info on all their home pages and advertising!

this was already dismissed as a poor wording in the TOS, they can't own your work.

however i don't trust them at all, and it wouldn't surprise me if it were really true.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Come on already. Don't you think there would be an army of lawyers chomping at the bit to bring a class action suit against PP for the millions of users if this was true?

there are already a few class action suits against them for their shifty bank half of the business. don't know how that's going though.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

This is from FAA's TOS

----By submitting images to Fine Art America, You grant to Fine Art America a worldwide, non-exclusive right to sell, license, sublicense, reproduce, prepare derivative works incorporating, publicly display, market, sublicense and sell any images uploaded by You and accepted by Fine Art America in exchange for specified compensation as agreed upon by You and Fine Art America, until such time as this Contributor Agreement is terminated pursuant to its terms. You further grant to Fine Art America a worldwide, non-exclusive right to use the images You submit and Your name, username and Images in connection with Fine Art America's marketing and promotional activities without the payment of any compensation to You.

You expressly waive any artists' authorship rights or any droit moral that You would otherwise have under the laws of the State of New York, United States Copyright Act or similar laws of any jurisdiction.

If you choose to sell image licenses for any of your images, You grant permission to Fine Art America to add, modify, or remove information related to Your Images in order to manage and license such Images.-----

PP may have worded theirs poorly but it says more or less the same thing. All online content hosts have similar sections on their TOS.

Didn't we already have this discussion?
Paypal doesn't want my art. What they do want, is the right to use the logo I uploaded for my invoicing..

WOW! Is FAA becoming the center of paranoia on the Internet!? This is hilarious!

Name one major corporation in the world that does not have a bunch of stupid, and yes a number of legitimate lawsuits. If you don't trust any of them and you refuse to do business with them, you better go lock yourself in the basement and turn off all the lights. lmfao!!!

Oh, wait, your basement is probably financed by one of those greedy corporations! lol

It is pretty clear that no many here have never read the fine print on about ever online business they have ever had transactions with.

They have to disclaim about everything under the sun to avoid as many lawsuits from nut jobs as then can. But even then they get sued.

*sigh*

PayPal can own all my works if they hand over a large sum first. Yes, I accept payment from PayPal.

Why is this still open?

Good question.