Who owns the posting on Yahoo answers? The users or Yahoo?

Question

Of course this also implies: Who is liable?

Answer 1

Well the answer is yahoo obviously.If you post a question,you have 3/4 days to edit or delete your question.Once it reaches the voting stage the users decide the best answer or you yourself.When the question is resolved,it becomes part of domain

Answer 2

If I post a message, I am liable for what I say. Now the law isn't that clear on how much you can say before it is considered liable, for example but it is better to error on the side of caution.

You can joke around but in any cross-cultural situation, one needs to be considerate without being a total wimp. I would never joke about another's religion in print or online. Obviously there has been a lot of controversy lately over jokes concerning the prophet Mohammed whom Muslims revere.

I, myself, do not like jokes about Jesus or the most important people in the Bible if they are not just silly little jokes. Joking around can be serious business to you if you are the target of negative humor.

Answer 3

The terms and conditions waive intellectual property rights of the contributors.

As for liabiity on the part of Yahoo!: in the USA it is clear that public forums are not liable for libel and intellectual property theft so long as they take immediate action to remove an offensive or offending posting when notified. Y! does do this.

The French Nazi paraphernalia trial involving Y! showed how difficult it is to enforce domestic norms on an international scale. Likewise, English (& Scottish) libel law, while in principle enforceable against foreign publishers sending only a few copies of a publiication to Britain, is in fact difficult to apply to foreign-based publishers. There have been spitting contests before between US and foreign courts.

Answer 4

Yahoo Terms of Service #6

You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not Yahoo!, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Service.

Answer 5

Worst answer as in it does not even come on the brink of answering the question, or if the respond became completely asinine, then particular there might desire to be a worst answer. presented it does fall decrease than the worst answer rules. yet this additionally gets abused with the help of a few human beings in simple terms as each and every thing does.

Answer 6

Depends. Yahoo would have you think its theirs. Intellectual and copyrighted material belongs to the holder. From what I have seen I wouldn't worry about Yahoo stealing any ones work.

Answer 7

Read the terms of the EULA. Yahoo is well protected, the end user is not.