[d@DCC] Law as code: Understanding the dilemma around a royalty-bearing Internet.

[Chris Brand]

>   The narrative text on this website is copyright. This means that any
>   school which copies the site for local use onto a school cache is in
>   breach of copyright. If your school wishes to copy the site in this way,
>   there is a tariff of charges. Please contact Spartacus Educational
>   spartacus at pavilion.co.uk for details.7

>   One path is to recognize that different operating environments exist, and
>   to explicitly clarify the reasonable limits on license agreements that a
>   copyright holder must agree with in order to publish using a specific
>   medium.

One factor that you don't mention is that in order to read the notice you
quote above (presumably for the purposes of research :-)), one has to
download (i.e. copy) the page in question, thereby allegedly breaching the
notice that you haven't yet read. Doesn't the idea that you have to have 
the chance to agree to a contract before it is binding upon you come into 
play here ?

Chris

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