Comments on: Mixi revises ToU to exploit users

By: Review: Lang-8 … the site that makes language exchange work « The Cunning Linguist (Archive)

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:29:23 +0000

[...] 9, 2008 Following the recent announcement by Japanese social-networking website Mixi that all content posted by their users will become their intellectual property at the end of March, analytical blog Japan Probe has recommended language exchange site Lang-8 as an alternative [...]

By: Ryu Ken

Ryu Ken — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:44:46 +0000

They’ve been indirecly profiting from their users contents for years. They might as well make it explicit.

By: Connor

Connor — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:47:35 +0000

Dear Shin,

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Connor Shepherd

By: Japan: Mixi in hot water over terms of use revision at Global Voices Advocacy

Japan: Mixi in hot water over terms of use revision at Global Voices Advocacy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:51:39 +0000

[...] fukamimi translates the most controversial part of revisions to the ToU, Article 18: By agreeing to the ToU (which all users implicitly do by continuing to using the [...]

By: Q-TARO.COM » Beware! Mixi is going to exploit all your content and photos

Q-TARO.COM » Beware! Mixi is going to exploit all your content and photos — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:58:35 +0000

[...] Beware! Mixi is going to exploit all your content and photos by Roy on March 7, 2008 16:58 Fukumimi, as usual, has a good write up about the impending Terms of Use bomb Mixi is planning to drop on [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: Mixi in hot water over terms of use revision

Global Voices Online » Japan: Mixi in hot water over terms of use revision — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:14:51 +0000

[...] fukamimi translates the most controversial part of revisions to the ToU, Article 18: By agreeing to the ToU (which all users implicitly do by continuing to using the [...]

By: Blogosphere: Mixi’s new Terms of Use to allow it to sell crowdsurfed content? Japan Economy News & Blog - Business, Economy, Marketing and Economic Reports

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:13:37 +0000

[...] to Mixi’s site, the changes have been reported over at Slashdot’s Japan site. Blogger Fukumimi proves a good translation: By agreeing to the ToU (which all users implicitly do by continuing to using the [...]

By: rick

rick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:24:12 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to let my wife know.

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: Mixi to claim rights over user content

Global Voices Online » Japan: Mixi to claim rights over user content — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:05:11 +0000

[...] Matt at Altjapan and Fukumimi report that Mixi, Japan's largest social networking site, has announced that as of April 1st, [...]

By: gkanai

gkanai — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:20:17 +0000

My Mixi account will be deleted with all of my data before the end of March.

Additional discussion over at Matt Alt’s blog:

http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mixi-on-the-roc.html