Craigslist wants to be in an exclusive relationship with you, and they have a new user agreement to prove it.
The company released new guidelines instructing users that if something is advertised on its site, you cannot post it anywhere else as the site will maintain the rights to that content.
When creating a new advertisement on the site, the following message will be shown: “Clicking ‘continue’ confirms that Craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing, or preparing derivative works without its consent.”
Users of the site will not be thrilled about this recent development, and I wonder if it will affect the site’s usership. Perhaps people will just ignore the rules?
According to the article, this new agreement is most likely due to a dispute with PadMapper, an apartment listings site that pulls available apartments from Craigslist and maps the apartments out on a Google Maps interface (which seems like a really convenient way to search for a new place!).
Hopefully Craigslist won’t follow our advertisements for a couch sale all over the internet… we shall see!
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/08/01/craigslist-puts-its-foot-down-with-exclusive-terms/
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