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This is stupid (and also against the terms of use - take that Johnny Law):
Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own website to www.accesscopyright.ca or any of its pages with the following exception: permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of, Access Copyright. In the event we contact you and request the link be removed, you agree to comply with that request promptly. If you link to or otherwise include www.captaincopyright.ca on your website, please let us know and create any link to our home page only.
Just another example of how clueless the publishing industry is about how networked knowledge works. It's bad enough that they are preying on the young to enforce their message of being "a good consumer," but to then effectively bar any criticism of their message is just going over the top.
Update: Apparently, I also went against this term
iv. You are not permitted to copy or cut from any page or its HTML source code to the Windows™ clipboard (or equivalent on other platforms) onto any other website.
by cutting and pasting their own terms. We in the writing biz call that "citing"; and by Canadian copyright, we're allowed to quote/reproduce up to 10% of a work when doing so.
Posted by Darren James Harkness on Thursday, June 1, 2006 01:14 PM
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Did you actually get an email from them regarding this? 2 words.
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Not yet, and I highly doubt I will. I came across that second bit when reading through the terms a little closer.
I phoned them directly and spoke with the woman in charge of the website. She said legal wasn't in, and they were having issues with their CMS (couldn't edit the pages), and she sounded harried and upset. They are aware and apparently distressed that there is a backlash via the web. Whether they will get their legal department to get with the law and Internet convention remains to be seen, I think.
That's really interesting; of course, it's often the front-line folk that have to deal with the decisions of the higher-ups.
I'm interested to see how this all shakes out (though, frankly, I'm still quite upset at their targeting of young children for a consumer message).
Check out the comic if you want to be upset. Part the way through it asks kids to vote -- by sending an email. Way to collect private information from minors, Captain Copyright!
The propaganda is thick and does a disservice to the real issues. The comic is just galling.
Also, according to BoingBoing, they've broken the usage guidelines of Wikipedia by not providing a link to cited content (they reference wikipedia.org, but do not actually link to it directly)