[Air-L] The Spiders will find you (was wayback machine waspublic/private)

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Let's keep in mind that it is easy enough to make a blog with  
differing levels of access and thus private messages can stay private  
and public can be public.   There is no reason to license anything  
really, you just have to properly configure your blog if you want  
private sections.
On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:35 PM, elw at stderr.org wrote:

>
>> 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
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron