[cc-licenses] Legal Questions on CC validity and enforceability

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Thu Mar 8 00:25:56 EST 2007


On 3/7/07, Dana Powers <dana.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, didn't mean to imply that this was a factual stretch, i.e.,
> that some licensors may not understand exactly what the licenses mean;
> just that expecting a judge to apply principles of
> adhesion/notice/web-wrap to those facts is a stretch.  I say that
> mainly because I think courts typically put the responsibility to
> understand terms of service or license terms etc on the party choosing
> the terms, but admittedly I haven't researched that at all.  Just a
> gut feeling from 1L contracts.

I'd love to hear one of the experienced licensing lawyers on the list
weigh in on this, if any of them have time. I have my own EWAG[1] as
to the outcome, but I'm only a 1L so I'm not so bold as to share them
with the list ;)

Luis

[1] http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/EWAG



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