RE: manifest assent

[Rick Anderson <Rick_Anderson@uncg.edu>]

> Of course, click-throughs are similar, and may contain 
> the same type of
> problems.  How do you freeze the click-through license at the moment you
> agreed to it?  Yes, you could print it, copy it offline, etc.  But if
> changes were later made to the click-through text, what's LEGALLY
> recording the moment in time and version of the license you read and
> agreed to?

What I suggest in this case is that you print the license, sign it, and
get it countersigned by the publisher.  (You'll probably need to add
language to it saying that the signed version is the only legally binding
one, since the online version will almost certainly lack such language.)  
Then the pub can change the online language to its heart's content without
it having any legal effect, as far as you're concerned.

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Rick Anderson
Head Acquisitions Librarian
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UNC Greensboro
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