Facebook’s latest attempt at “friendliness”

Facebook just released a statement concerning future changes to their Terms of Use: Beginning today, we are giving you a greater opportunity to voice your opinion over how Facebook is governed. We’re starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights [...]

i can haz acceptance?

I saw this on Boing Boing, and felt I had to share.  Long story short: some woman built a contraption to let her cat click her mouse, and purportedly create unenforceable EULAs: As he is not a legal entity, I don’t really know how kitty’s agreements would stand up in court, but I like to [...]

Quick thought about Facebook’s EULA

I’m working on a longer post about Facebook’s EULA, but one thing about this whole mess deserves separate comment.  A recently released comment by a Facebook spokesman states the following: We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that users upload. OK, so, Facebook doesn’t “own” user submitted content.  That’s great.  However, they [...]

New Feature – The EULA Gallery

Since we just started, I suppose pretty much every feature is new.  However, I thought this deserved special attention. We plan to spend some time here reading, discussing, and analyzing (and mocking?) End User License Agreements, or EULAs.  One way to support that discussion will be our new EULA Gallery.  If we discuss a EULA, [...]