• Posts Tagged ‘clickwrap’

    Not What Copyright Is For

    by  • October 16, 2017 • copyright • 0 Comments

    I previously wrote about a puzzling case, Small Justice LLC v. Xcentric Ventures L.L.C., with the defendant better know as Ripoff Report. The First Circuit has now grappled with it, although based on a revised district court opinion amended with a highly consequential footnote. To distill it down as much as possible, a lawyer,...

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    Assent Versus Signature

    by  • April 9, 2015 • copyright • 0 Comments

    I asked whether the below “Submit” page, used when one posts a review on Rip-Off Report (owned by defendant Xcentric), transferred an exclusive license in the submitter’s copyright: If you were to use the scrollbar on the right, you would find this grant: “By posting information or content to any public area of www.RipoffReport.com,...

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    Was It Licensed?

    by  • April 6, 2015 • copyright • 1 Comment

    Below is a portion of the “Submit” page when one posts a review on Rip-Off Report, owned by defendant Xcentric. (Click on the image for the full page.) If you were to use the scrollbar on the right, you would find this grant: “By posting information or content to any public area of www.RipoffReport.com,...

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