Helium Agreement

1. Helium Agreement

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   he user agreement at Helium.com states, in bold type:3. Rights to submitted articles and other content
   Helium does not claim ownership of the content you publish on the Site. After publishing content on the Site, you (or a third party who permitted you to publish their content on the Site) continue to retain all ownership to the content, subject to the license terms described herein, and you continue to have the right to use the content in any way you choose.This is highly deceptive, as the next section of the agreement, not bold, states:Grant of license: By submitting your content to Helium, you grant Helium (and any Helium successors-in-interest, subsidiaries, or parent companies), a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to, in whole or in part, with or without attribution to you, use, copy, modify, edit, adapt, publish, publicly display/perform, translate, display, create derivative works from and/or license and/or distribute content posted to the Site. Helium’s rights to content you submit include the right to make editorial revisions to your content; to use your name or pen name as author of your content; to use in any way the materials you submit on the Helium website or in other Helium media, whether now or hereafter created; to use for our own internal business purposes; and/or to reproduce and distribute the materials for Helium’s marketing and publicity purposes.This gives Helium right to “use in any way the materials you submit on the Helium website or in other Helium media”. . . “with or without attribution to you.” In other words they completely own a writer’s work, forever, regardless of the bold statement made in the preceding heading.

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