Re: CBS Legal Notice

On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, carroll[_at_]tjc.com (Terry Carroll) wrote:
>
> While reading the latest David Letterman Top Ten List at cbs.com, I
> checked out CBS' web site's legal notice at
> http://www.cbs.com/legal_notes.html . I found it ro be refreshingly
> informal, and might make for interesting reading for some of this
> list's subscribers.
>
> For example, here's a paragraph discussing copyright (and yes, I'm
> relying on fair use to quote it here):
>
> Assume that everything on the site is copyrighted [read: it's
> not yours] unless we say otherwise. So you can't use the stuff
> except how we say you can on this page or anywhere else on the
> site without our written permission. In fact, even if we wanted
> to, the lawyers are likely to veto any deal; so, it's better you
> don't even ask! There's also a lot of trademarks, logos, and
> service marks on the site, including ones like CBS and the CBS
> Eye logo that either we own or we're using with someone else's
> permission. So don't think you have any kind of license or
> right to use them, because you don't and we're not about to give
> you one.

Gee. A reasonably comprehensible, to the non-lawyer, statement of rights claimed by CBS. How refreshing. And, I bet, quite effective.

Harold Federow
<hfederow[_at_]u.washington.edu> Received on Wed Feb 12 1997 - 09:51:22 GMT