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Japan: Mixi to claim rights over user content

Written byChris Salzberg
Posted 4 March 2008 10:05 GMT

Bloggers Matt at Altjapan and Fukumimi report that Mixi, Japan's largest social networking site, has announced that as of April 1st, it will change its terms of use retroactively granting it rights to replicate, broadcast, transmit, display, distribute and translate any user content without compensation, including information in messages delivered through Mixi's message service.

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