Re: manifest assent

[Kimberly Parker <kimberly.parker@yale.edu>]

Examples I can do.  The ones below are ones that I can find scrambling in
my files.  So some may be perfectly acceptable and others may have
language that people would want to modify.  No distinctions made here.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/terms.html
http://www.sagepub.com/shopping/journal_online.asp#Licence
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/static/online.htm#Terms

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Kimberly Parker
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At 11:58 PM 6/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Kimberly:  The discussion you hoped for is not materializing.  I wonder if
>it could be because many readers would be helped by examples of manifest
>assent-type licenses?  Can you elaborate by pointing us to a few examples
>of what you mean?  Some consciousness-raising on this point is important.
>
>Not being particularly familiar with such creatures myself, I'd stick to
>the caution that I give for "click" licenses and other supposedly
>non-negotiable ones:  Think about your situation.  If you are sitting at
>home in your fuzzy slippers trolling through the internet and you graze
>through such e-wares and you don't read the license or don't comply with
>it, the likelihood that the sheriff will knock on your door and serve you
>with a subpoena is probably nil.  However, if you are an employee of an
>institution that represents a potential customer for the e-goods, then the
>situation could be quite different.  I personally think that no
>institution can afford to glide by such licenses and take no action. In
>fact, it would be irresponsible.
>
>By the way, UCITA would validate/legalize such licenses as Kimberly
>describes, a reason to pay attention to such licenses -- and to fight
>adoption of UCITA.  Unless you live in Maryland or Virginia or any other
>state where UCITA may have been enacted.  In that case you might want
>to fight to get it off the books.
>
>Ann Okerson
>Yale University