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Renegade:
Check #1 here:

https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full?locale.x=GB

Intellectual Property
We are adding a new paragraph to section 1.3., which outlines the licence and rights that you give to us and to the PayPal Group (see paragraph 12 below for the definition of “PayPal Group”) to use content that you post for publication using the Services. A similar paragraph features in the Privacy Policy, which is removed by the addition of this paragraph to the User Agreement. The new paragraph at section 1.3 reads as follows:

“When providing us with content or posting content (in each case for publication, whether on- or off-line) using the Services, you grant the PayPal Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, database rights and intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights against the PayPal Group, its sublicensees or assignees. You represent and warrant that none of the following infringe any intellectual property right: your provision of content to us, your posting of content using the Services, and the PayPal Group’s use of such content (including of works derived from it) in connection with the Services.”
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A few news outlets have picked it up:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-future-paypal-changes-terms-service-take-content/

If you haven’t been following these developments, multi-national businesses are working with governments to take control of internet usage, regulations, and even local government utilities through international treaties like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is being secretly being constructed, without public or legislative consult, and is a massive outline of future controls by businesses on many aspects of your life. You aren;’t supposed to know what lies ahead with the TPP. Search online for more information on the TPP, and check WikiLeaks for more details on what little has been exposed to this attack on freedom. This is clearly a step along these growing lines of corporate fascism.

It looks like PayPal has joined the dark side, but freedom rings within the Bitcoin community, and this just underscores why Bitcoin is here and why it is the future of online technology and business. It’s all about control. Their control. See the link above about their plans for biometric control over your account. Paypal looks ready to confiscate your online content, and your business if you let them. Bitcoin brings power to the people. The choice is yours. Consider yourselves warned.

Is PayPal on a righteous path or are they on the wrong side of history? Do you like owning your content, or can PayPal take it, just because you use their payment service?
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More at the link.

https://hax.5july.org/2015/04/25/paypal-joins-the-dark-side/

PayPal joins the Dark Side
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Whut!?!

And what is “content” supposed to be? PayPal is a payment service. So the only content there is, is the online stuff people and companies sell using PayPal as payment provider. Did PayPal just claim control over all of that?
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Paul Joseph Watson chimes in here and here.

But this all seems strange as 15.5 in their current agreement is very similar:

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full

15.5 License Grant from You to PayPal; IP Warranties. Subject to section 15.6, when providing PayPal with content or posting content using PayPal Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, database rights and intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights against PayPal, its sublicensees or its assignees. You represent and warrant that none of the following infringe any intellectual property or publicity right: your provision of content to PayPal, your posting of content using the PayPal Services, and PayPal’s use of such content (including of works derived from it) in connection with the PayPal Services.”
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Did PayPal just claim ownership in everything they help facilitate a sale for, or what?

rgdot:
This kind of thing will never work, doesn't matter how they word it or not. I remember a similar case many years ago, trying to remember who it was. Almost similar wording about IP of stuff through their network.

Deozaan:
What content gets posted to PayPal? AFAIK the only "content" that PayPal facilitates moving from one person to another is money.

Someone selling something using PayPal isn't actually giving the goods to PayPal to disburse to the buyer. So I don't get what all this means. :-\

SeraphimLabs:
Its funny how this has gone almost completely unnoticed, probably because of how rediculous it is.

Meanwhile the internet is in an uproar over what Steam is up to.

Well the joke's on Valve. I always use paypal when buying from Steam, so they can go kill each other over my purchases I'll just be here playing Age of Empires Gold edition, which I bought nearly 15 years ago and being free from DRM and callhomes still works almost as good as when I bought it. Just gotta load up a VM of Windows 98 to make it run right.

wraith808:
there is an uproar over steam?

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