Re: Public Domain

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> wrote:
>
> It's not clear. There are two questions: do you enter into a contract
> with the owners of the website by using the website, thereby agreeing to
> the terms and conditions? If so, is that promise preempted by the
> Copyright Act? Courts have disagreed about both questions.
>
> In my opinion, the terms and conditions should be unenforceable in this
> situation; but there is simply no consensus view at this point.

Personally, I agree that the terms and conditions that should be unenforceable. But, the trend seems to be that they are enforceable. I find this very troubling.

We will see how the Supreme Court will response to the petition made by Baystate Technologies, Inc. (Docket number is 02-1585.)

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
http://www.boycottcopyright.com

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,686

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Mon Jun 09 2003 - 18:48:02 GMT