On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Scott Granneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here ya go. > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-chromes-terms-of.html
And just as I suspected, that stuff is there because of copyright law: "This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content." If anyone really wants to see the kind of legalese that's in these "contracts" go away, maybe do something about copyright. Here's a good PDF on the public domain and why it's important: http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/why_the_public_domain_matters.pdf A couple good blogs to follow: http://www.sivacracy.net/ http://www.lessig.org/blog/ And Lawrence Lessig has an awesome presentation on copyright history: http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ And Siva Vaidhyanathan has a great book on copyright: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46856111&referer=brief_results Sean --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
