I just don't like Yahoo.
In many ways I've found them to be a bit clueless, that's when they're not being downright evil.
Flickr terms of service:
7. Flickr is intended for personal use and is not a generic image hosting service. Professional or corporate uses of Flickr are prohibited.
but then in Yahoo! TOS:
Well, it's long badly written legalese but pretty much amounts to something like 'we can do what we like, we're always right - you're always wrong. So ner.'
Hence wii.yahoo.com/ where they're using pictures from Flickrites tagged with wii -as if they were stock images, here being used for a Professional/corporate purpose - advertising/promoting the wii game machine -as part of their new bright idea of
'brand universes'.
(I seem to remember a while back now, griping about Yahoo trying to encourage everyone to tag everything for them, with the only benefit I could see being Yahoo's - so they could then sell that information on to advertisers, and this was before they had bought out del.ici.ous...)
No doubt someone at Yahoo! thought -'wow this is a cool idea - so web 2.0' let's go for it. But Yahoo! -as ever, don't know cool from their elbow.
Isn't there a rule that in business that one of the last things you should ever do is piss off paying customers? Especially when this is a business that's built around social interaction and communities.
Links:
Mmmm - brand universe.
Forum: Flickr photos being joined to advertising -- without consent.
1 comment:
you know, i seem to recall them doing this EXACT SAME THING about a year or so ago. (maybe it was longer)
after flickr had been acquired, yahoo started using people's photos that were marked as copyright protected, TOTALLY ignoring what people had picked as their creative commons setting. what were they using the photos for? to pimp out flickr on the yahoo photos page. in other words, ADVERTISING!
the bastards will never learn. the moral of the story? never trust a big company. i fucking hate yahoo.
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