On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:47:35AM -0800, Neil Schneider spake thusly:
> American blogger Amy Gahran, owner of the blog Contentious, has
> discovered
> clauses in the newly revised AOL contract for its "free" instant
> messenger service
> (AIM) that claims "compilation and derivative rights" to all content
> and ideas

AOL released a statement clarifying that these terms only applied to forum
postings and that they do not log or record any IM conversations. That it
only applied to forum postings is evident from reading the license and was
also pointed out in the recent /. discussion before AOL made theÑr
statement. I would be inclined to believe them although I still encourage
the use of encryption on general principle.

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