Archive for the ‘Legal’ Category

You should actually read the Terms Of Service Agreement

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Someone using the nick "light" popped into the WMR chatroom the other day and asked if he could sue a forum owner for violating his copyright by refusing to remove a post containing his work. After playing a game of 50 questions to ascertain exactly what the issue is and ...

Does RSS equal implicit permission to reprint?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

There's a fun debate happening right this very second on WebmasterRadio.fm chat where people are arguing over whether or not the existence of an RSS feed is the same as implicitly granting permission to anyone and everyone to republish your work. Personally, I'm on the fence on the morality of the ...

Changing the WHOIS Service isn’t necessary

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

The Generic Names Supporting Organization's final Whois Task Force report (something like 2 years in the making) recommends that ICANN restrict the amount of contact information publicly available via the whois service, and completely do away with technical and administrative contacts in favor of an "Operational Point of Contact", or ...