Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 7:47PM Polishing up the dogtags in light of the latest from the stalwart aeronautics team:
Family, Life, Photos tagged: DIY, grandpa, little river, llama cottage, mendocino, plane, project Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 10:19AM 
Good news. My quibble: "Except where otherwise noted" seems a little vague to cover the fact users already grant a potentially broader license (i.e., if the CC license prohibits commercial use) to Facebook when they sign up.
Family, Life, Photos tagged: DIY, grandpa, little river, llama cottage, mendocino, plane, project Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 1:27PM 
All YOUR data are belong to U.S.
Originally uploaded by Imamon
Courtesy of Professor Lessig and Boing Boing, here's a great resource from Markus Weiland: his comparison of the rights to user data/submissions required by various video hosting sites. Definitely something to peruse when deciding on a place to put your videos. Also see Scott Bourne's commentary and interview with me and Brett Trout: What Does TOS Mean Anyway?
More interesting discussion of terms of service in the modern era is bound to take place at the upcoming E-Commerce Best Practices conference at Stanford Law School on June 12. This is a deeply wonky annual event I enjoy attending when possible, but this year preschool graduation takes precedence. So, I won't be at Stanford, but I'd love to hear about it during and after the fact if you will be. Notable sessions include:
Best Practices for Drafting Terms of Use (including Drafting more user-friendly agreements, Class action waivers, arbitration clauses, choice of law and forum, Dealing with overlap in B2B arrangements, and Adapting Terms of Use to open source environments)
and
User-generated Content (including Copyright liability and the UGC principles, Secondary trademark infringement, Making sense of CDA case law, and International perspectives)
It's good to see "user friendliness" front and center for the Terms of Use session, though it begs the question whether the reference is to comprehensibility, or scope, or both. This tends to be a very industry-oriented confab.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:15AM Next Monday, May 18, this WEEK in LAW will be live on TWiT.tv starting at 3:30 p.m. Pacific. You can watch at live.twit.tv, or on Stickam or UStream. Chat with us real-time at irc.twit.tv or on FriendFeed (the Stickam and UStream channels have their own chat as well, but I won't be monitoring those while we're on.)
Guests are Elliot Noss, Eric Goldman, Colette Vogele, and Evan Brown. Discussion notes are being aggregated here (leave a comment here, tag something for:thisweekinlaw in del.icio.us, or @ me on Twitter to suggest more). Lots to talk about!
