Following up yesterday’s post about Tikatok, where I pointed out what I considered to be their overly-greedy grab for intellectual property rights over their users’ content, it turns out they’re changing that User Agreement.
Tikatok community manager Neal Grigsby writes:
I am Neal Grigsby, the community manager for Tikatok. I wanted to thank you and your readers for your comments about Tikatok’s User Agreement, and to let you know that we are in the process of updating the User Agreement to reflect that authors will own all original materials that they submit to Tikatok. Tikatok will own any underlying Tikatok templates that are used by the author while on www.tikatok.com, as well as any other content that is licensed from third parties by Tikatok.
That sounds more like an appropriate balance to me. I’ll post a link to the new policy when it appears.
It’s nice to know that Tikatok have responded so positively, and it’s also good to be reminded of the value of making a public fuss when things are not right.