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Old 03-29-2008, 06:37 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by basschick View Post
regarding license transfers, what i'd like to see would be that content license would be fully transferable with 2 conditions:

1. a document to show that the business is under new ownership and that all copies of all content under the license to be transferred have been removed from the original licensee's websites entirely.

2. content owner must approve new licensor after the new licensor affirms that he/she can fulfill all terms of the license.
Can the content owner Veto the sale?

The situation is some of the licenses were written as long as 8 years ago. Todays Internet is nothing like it was then. So licenses have changed. Megarotic or Zango or a similar company can buy a company and use the content within the terms of the license and severely harm the content providers other clients and the content provider.
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