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Standard move I'd say. Stops people from making services that pull information from Craigslist and advertise it elsewhere.



It's not very standard. The standard text in a UGC site's terms is to grant a non-exclusive license to the submitted content, and does not grant the sole rights to enforce the copyright in that content. This text on the submission form is both new and non-standard; it doesn't even agree with what's in their TOS document.

An exclusive license means landlords themselves are giving up their right to post the same listing on other rental listing sites, for example, by using a tool that would post the exact same listing to multiple sites.


Thanks for pointing this out Dan, I updated the post to include snippets of other popular terms. You're absolutely right.


Seems more like a reaction to Padmapper and 3taps.




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