Hard News: Grade-A lunacy. With your money.
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See what I did there?
Anyway, here's a list from a British blog: Sites that ban you from linking to them. Still. In 2010.
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Extraordinary.
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*shakes head in disbelief, walks away*
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Auckland site's back up. No link policy presently, but that some grade-a shink-wrap licencing right there.
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Clearly they want their websites to have lower google rankings eh..
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Is this, in any way, legally enforceable?
I'm guessing not, but I'd love to see them try. Could be good for a laugh.
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Back when we were trying to put together the T&C for Bardic Web and looking at what other people were doing, we realised that the reason a number of sites would have the same very odd prohibitions was that they'd nicked their entire T&C from someone else's site.
I can't now find a way of expressing that I'm not implying that's what's happened here without it sounding like I'm implying that's what's happened here even more...
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If the Copyright Council of NZ had done that, it would be even more deliciously ironic.
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I'm at a complete loss. On the one hand you have Auckland Council agencies going off and spending thousands of dollars on new systems that are already in place with existing councils, then on the other hand we have this bullshit.
As I said on Twitter: I desperately want the new Auckland Council to re-use stuff, but can we at least not re-use the cockups?
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Auckland site's back up. No link policy presently, but that some grade-a shink-wrap licencing right there.
Thanks for the heads-up. I've amended the post to include the actual wording.
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Ben, can you check the amended post and see if I've missed anything about the Auckland Council T&Cs?
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Heh. From Wellington City Council:
This website and all its content is owned by the Wellington City Council and is subject to copyright. Website visitors may reproduce, store and use the content of this website for personal, informational and non-commercial purposes only.
Except as stated in the above paragraph, no portion of the content of the website, or the Council logo, may be copied or used without the written permission of the Council.
Explains the fallout from this press release I copied. The WCC link there is dead now. No C&D nastygram from WCC for the cut and paste though.
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Can I, in a comment on your blog, impose T&C for the readers of my own comment?
The T & C for this comment are that you may read it but are not allowed to use the info contained in it for any other purpose... including quoting it, or even implying that you've read it by responding to the content....
:)
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I worked for a firm in the late 90s that was all about deep linking and we never got so much as a cease and desist.
I wonder how many of these sites set NOBOTS. Anyway as a layman I'd argue that a link, deep or otherwise, is fair use.
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Also: Looks like Google is breaching the Copyright Council's cacheing policy.
They'll be quaking in their boots, I'm sure.
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First China, then the Copyright Council of NZ? They don't stand a chance.
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Ever, apparently. Because who knows where we'd be if information got out
Look Russell it's easy to make lite of this but if people start reading websites willynilly we're all fucked because that would create a problem that ,well I can't actually define the problem at the moment but seriously do these people who write that legal stuff actually understand what the online medium does and how viral is a really, really good thing online.
A disconnect of industries!
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Makes me wonder why Public Address doesn't have a policy that requires users to obtain written permission (within 1 to 5 working days) before commenting on the System?
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I heard that one of the technical improvements that Russell has in the pipeline is that all comments will have to be delivered by registered mail.
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merc,
What pay can make minds so small?
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I was hoping we could set up a smoke communication system on hills.
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3410,
So.... why would they do this?
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going all postal...
...all comments will have to be delivered by registered mail.
via Thurn and Taxis, W.A.S.T.E. or Bolger's lot?
...and will this usher in the welcome return of the tamperproof wax seal? -
but we'll always be able to paraphrase...and offer general directions to the vicinity thereof.
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via Thurn and Taxis, W.A.S.T.E. or Bolger's lot?
Bolger's lot 39. Naturally.
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