Kay, It's funny you bring this up, as this was one of the things we just covered last week in my class. If anyone has too much time on their hands and not enough reading material, here are some links I dug up for my class on especially egregious EULAs:
http://www.benedelman.org/news/112904-1.html http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/gators-egregious-eula http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6507549 http://www.eff.org/wp/dangerous-terms-users-guide-eulas I especially like how the iTunes EULA states that it may not be used to plan, build or operate a nuclear power facility. The last time I d/l an update of iTunes I made certain to read that part ;-) You said: Larry Lessig is a Prof. of Law at Stanford, a board member of the Creative Commons project, and named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." Yes, he's written some very interesting things on copyright. I remember there was some hope on /. a while back that he'd be picked as Obama's copyright czar. It's interesting to see the legal community getting involved in some of these issues. I think entire classes at Carnegie Mellon maybe and Harvard are doing pro-bono work to defend hapless RIAA victims, as is Ray Beckerman (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/). Anytime I buy RIAA-backed music I donate an equal amount to Beckerman... Sorry -- I guess that's getting really OT ;-) Judy http://revined.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
