Why does Eons require a license to use the content I post?
The license that you, the copyright owner, give Eons is:
- worldwide – because the Internet and Eons are global in reach;
- royalty-free – meaning that Eons is not required to pay you for the content that you post;
- non-exclusive – meaning you are free to license your content to anyone else in addition to Eons; and
- sub licensable – so that Eons is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide our eons.com website.
Among other things, the license you give us includes the right to modify the content you post on eons.com. Without this right, Eons would not be able to format content to satisfy technical requirements of the website.
The license also includes the right to distribute content “in any form.” We realize that this is a very wide-open term. But as we BOOMers know, technology moves at an incredible pace, and the forms of communication we’re familiar with today may quickly be replaced by forms we can’t even envision yet. We’ve already seen our world move on from vinyl records to reel-to-reel tapes, then cassettes, CD’s and DVD’s. We have moved from snail-mail to email, IM’s, blogs, and text and video messaging via cell phones (and probably other media and means of communications that we at Eons don’t even know about). Given the fast pace of change, that “in any form” language enables us to move quickly to meet our members’ changing needs.
