Yet again that is not a valid point. No one knows if something they place on the net today will be of value or use in a year let alone in any undisclosed time in the future. So to say that it is up to the person to keep track of their material for all time is not at all a accurate statement.
I bet that the company doesnt remember some of the things it put up on it web page when it started let alone know what could be done with the stuff on there now in 5 years.
So to say that it is up to a person to know and to foresee the future is just wrong. I take several screenshots of thigns i see on the web daily. Does that mean in the future when i see the site get changed that i can use this info against them? No.
the polain and simple fact of the matter is the internet is not to be governed. Waht the company is trying to do is just that. They want to govern their site. Granted that has to be done. But to sit there and say they have rights to something for all time when no one can see the future is garbage. No one has rights to something for all time but the original author.
For this company to lay claim to someone original work for a period of time that they deem fit is garbage. There is also somethign called the statute of limitations. Which states you can only claim rights to it for 7 years unless you copyright it and to do that you have to be the original author. Unless you have fully compensated them.
Plain and simple i have said it several times now. The company is being shady. They are trying to lay claim to stuff that isnt their without giving full knowledge to the people using the site of what can happen and for how long the material belongs to the site.
I bet if the users knew that they lost all rights to the work forever when putting the material on the site....they would find another site to use.