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CafePress is EVIL!

July 2nd 2004, 02:53 PM
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Drake
Peasant He/Him
 
...but in a bad way.

When you start a shop with cafe press you agree that any content that you submit to them is their intelectual property. In other words: they have sole rights to any media submitted to them.


6.1 CafePress.com Service: CafePress.com will solely and exclusively own all intellectual property and other rights, title and interest in and to the CafePress.com Service, and CafePress.com will have the sole and exclusive right to obtain trademark and copyright registrations, patents and other protection therefor, and you will not acquire any right, title or interest therein, under this Agreement or otherwise.


Read the whole agreement at:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/memberagreement.aspx
July 2nd 2004, 04:15 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Yep. Eeeeeevil.
July 3rd 2004, 06:37 PM
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VaultDweller
Peasant He/Him United States
Wanderer of the Wasteland 
Thats incredibly dubious! Who would possibly agree to submit any materiel when they could claim they made it themselves?

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
July 3rd 2004, 07:00 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
They'd agree to that for one of two reasons:

1) They didn't read the license agreement.
2) The content sucks so much they don't care.
July 4th 2004, 12:43 AM
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this is just one of those things where the only reason people use it is because they haven't read the license agreement. funny, that's kind of like microsoft products.