I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? BVE ----- Original Message ----- >Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website >All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23. <SNIP> >Still have questions? >Does every member of a family website need to pay? >No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other >website members >to enjoy the same benefits. >What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23? >After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become >inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate >your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other >content until the website is upgraded. >If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their >"Terms and Conditions" site? <SNIP> >User Provided Content >Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you >may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc. >is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant >MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license >to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded >Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to >you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or >organizations. <END MYFAMILY.COM> >And from a GenWeb list forward <SNIP> >If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about >the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned >by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general. >If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not > >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service. > This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream. >DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never >happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My >marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if >there could be some proactive work to prevent it. <END> _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus