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Ooosah is a very tempting proposition, with the promise of a whole terabyte of webspace free to upload and share your own content.

But be warned. The following iniquitous line appears deep in the Terms & Conditions …

… by posting Content to Oosah, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Oosah (and its successors) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, assignable, royalty free, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, distribute and to prepare derivative works of such Content in connection with the Site and any current and future services offered by Oosah, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

Notice that this is not limited to content you have decided to share, so even your private content may be used by Oosah to do pretty much what they like with - even create derivative works. What’s more, once uploaded your stealthily obtained ‘permission’ cannot be withdrawn.

This is underhand and disgraceful. When you upload something and mark it as ‘private’ you presumably wouldn’t expect to see it passed on to a third party by sublicence, but they have endowed themselves with just that authority. Even Facebook’s T&Cs (http://www.new.facebook.com/terms.php) aren’t as bad as this. At least Facebook allows permission to expire if the content is withdrawn.

Oosah. Steer clear until further notice

T&Cs - see clause 9c http://www.oosah.com/terms.php