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

Michael Zimmer michael.zimmer at nyu.edu
Tue Aug 14 17:09:52 PDT 2007


yes, but again, we're assuming the uber-blogger. Let's say my Mom  
starts a blog, must we expect her to master password settings and the  
like? Do only the technically-proficient benefit from protections,  
rather than the average (or below) publishers of web content? -mz

On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:

> 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
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