Why I won’t be signing up for the ironically named “Open” Salon

Wow. From their Terms of Service (Terms and Conditions in their title tag), item seven, Rights and Use of the Content:

By submitting or posting User Content using the Service or the Site, you grant to Salon an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to: (1) use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute the User Content in or through any medium now known or hereafter invented, for any purpose; (2) to prepare derivative works using the User Content, or to incorporate it into other works, for any purpose; and (3) to grant and authorize sublicenses of any or all of the foregoing rights.

Gory details here.

I’m all for giving things away when it may help your career, but this is just crazy. An irrevocable, perpetual license? What if I signed up when I was drunk or something?