14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
11:35 p.m.
Copyright does not let you pick, but what if I include a restrictive license? Someone earlier suggested a "Researchers May Not Research Me" license, for example. How far may "Terms of Service" extend? Even if I do not have password protection, couldn't readers be exposed to a clickwrap license (ToS) on reading my blog?
General consensus among attorneys I know has long been that clickwrap licenses on *software* are questionable. By extension, I believe that such a thing on a blog post would be even more so. ToS/"don't research me" leads you quickly to the slippery slope down which such themes as "thoughtcrime" lie.... --e