I think the current owners of the Thurn and Taxis infrastructure (after half a dozen corporate and/or national upheavals) are Deutsche Post A.G. Which, for some reason, are the people who Amazon use to post things from America to New Zealand. No idea why.

It has been policy for some…

Seriously, I need to claim ACC on that.

Sorry, neck or eye injuries caused by rapidly jerking ones head away from salacious internet material is no longer covered.

I'm surprised it's not in the T&C.

Never do that again to us. My eyes!

Perhaps all my bitching on Facebook about Dumb Library School (TM) should just be replaced with a weekly posting of that video. It says so much.

You jest, but:

Never do that again to us. My eyes!

Deutsche Post A.G. Which, for some reason, are the people who Amazon use to post things from America to New Zealand. No idea why.

They own DHL which I understand owns half of CourierPost.

I warmly endorse this policy.
Generations of editors and supplicants seeking favourable coverage have probably long established a single malt economy at the Northern Club and other suitable venues for the transacting of favours and commerce.

Our very own Forth Estate. We are talking 'Point Chevalier' so maybe the __Four…

And in the case of video attachments, groups of librarians would re-enact the scene and film it on VHS. A-la Be Kind Rewind.
True story.

You jest, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uzUh1VT98

(KILL ME NOW, etc.)

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I warmly endorse this policy.

I mean more the imbedding of an image than the 'linking to'. That certainly what was a big issue when my uni library put up digital collections of art.

Yes, but all these disclaimers refer to linking, not embedding.

If you link to an image, it doesn't mean it appears on your website.

I mean more the imbedding of an image than the 'linking to'. That certainly what was a big issue when my uni library put up digital collections of art.

My department had to get legal advice…

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You jest, but when I worked…

and from the always cogent and prescient thoughts of the late Paul Reynolds in March this year:

...and by internal policy fiat there are very few hyper-links links to outside sources. Moreover,…

So what was his opinion?

Her opinion was that technically the authors of the catalogue had an enforceable claim. Moreover in the catalogue itself there was a very lenghty legal notice about the near-sacred nature of those pictures based – it seemed to me – entirely on the fact that…

I imagine the organisation would have a challenge establishing any kind of loss when all the person is doing is linking to publicly available material.

In most cases links to your content are a gain, surely?

Without regurgutating too much of what was previously discussed, the law is unclear in this area, but it'd be a brave company or…

Its been argued that photographic reproductions of public domain art, contain no creative merit. And is there for unable to be copyrighted.

I'm talking about a right in law, as per the opinion of a copyright lawyer friend regarding my scanning of public domain artworks from an out of print…

because that would create a problem that ,well I can't actually define the problem at the moment

You guys (and Emma of course) a making fun of this and it's damn serious. If websites are used the way they were intended the end result would be the wanton (thinking of…

Links to our pages must clearly reveal that they belong to our site. Representing our pages in subframes is prohibited.

The subframes thing is so that they don't get misrepresented which I think is fair.…

If you wish to provide a link to our site from your website, you must do so in such a way that it is clear to users that the pages are part of the Christchurch City Council website. You must not represent any page on…

which incidentally claimed Te Papa owned copyright on scanned public domain image

Copyright in the images, or copyright in the reproductions that appear on their website? Because that's quite a vexed issue. I understand they are allowed to claim the latter.

To be fair, they're probably trying to protect people from using copyrighted images.

No, Te Papa already had a very clear and separate image copyright policy on the site (which incidentally claimed Te Papa owned copyright on scanned public domain images, something else I took them to task for, but…

Which is still counter-productive and wrong.

Oh absolutely. It's just one of the many scenarios that tend to get risk-averse corporate bunnies all lathered up.

"But but! What if a screen scraping iPhone app gives someone the wrong bus time and they miss their bus and they freeze to death…

To be fair, they're probably trying to protect people from using copyrighted images. Artists and estates may provide permission for a museum or gallery to put images up on a web site on the condition that it only appears on that web site.

If you link to an image, it…

Interesting; I can't find the offending paragraph on the Manukau Libraries site anymore – have they nixed it since the blog post?

Yep goneburger. I sent them an email this morning asking what I should do if a friend asks me on Twitter if Manukau library has a certain book.…

I presume that is designed to stop people writing an app over top of the library catalogs, bus timetables, etc..

Which is still counter-productive and wrong.

Interesting; I can't find the offending paragraph on the Manukau Libraries site anymore – have they nixed it since the blog post?

They have!

Ben, can you check the amended post and see if I've missed anything about the Auckland Council T&Cs?

Looks good. I think they're trying to cover scraping and re-using with the "do not [...] make it available to third parties through a networked computer environment". I presume that is designed…

Grade-A lunacy. With your money.

You may regret having used this title now, should Banks' Supercity Olympics proposal get any traction in the real world...

Nah. That would be Gold Medal Lunacy.

You'd never make it as a subbie, being so blind to obvious puns =)

But seriously: Te Papa? Our Place? I guess it was a sign that someone didn't have a clue.

To be fair, they're probably trying to protect people from using copyrighted images. Artists and estates may provide permission for a museum or gallery to put images up on a web site…

It affords us some level of protection against inappropriate linking that could be damaging to our various interests.

Says the museum that hosted a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

Grade-A lunacy. With your money.

You may regret having used this title now, should Banks' Supercity Olympics proposal get any traction in the real world...

But yes, seems like a spectacularly stupid set of rules to provide for a website. And this:

do not modify the information or make it…

When I enquired in 2007,…

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Bolger's lot 39. Naturally.

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...and will this usher in the welcome return of the tamperproof wax seal?

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…

They'll be quaking in their boots, I'm sure.

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.…

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…

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…

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.

As I said on Twitter: I desperately want the…

I can't now find…

I'm guessing not, but I'd love to see them try. Could be good for a laugh.

Anyway, here's a list from a British blog: Sites that ban you from linking to them. Still. In 2010.