[Web4lib] Nature copyright clause (was Wikipedia vs. Britannica)

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:53:36 -0800
> From: Walt.Crawford at rlg.org
> 
> 2. If you were required to agree to a license--to click on a
> EULA--to see the material, then it's no longer a copyright
> issue. Whether such a license would be legally conscionable or
> enforceable is quite another question, but you're dealing with
> contract law, not copyright law.

I had heard that such licences can only give you _more_ rights, not
take away the rights that the law gives you by default.  Is that
incorrect?  (I am about as far from being a lawyer as it's possible to
be.)

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