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Can a company get out of honoring a subscription by demanding a new terms of service contract?
Say I have a year-long online subscription to the New York Times.
Say that, a few months into the term of my subscription, the New York Times' web site begins to refuse service to me, instead ...
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Can I set additional terms of service for "my" page on a third-party service?
A lot of web sites, like Github or Facebook, have terms of service for the platform as a whole but also let me publish stuff on pages that I have some control over. I can post a README file on my ...
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Terms of Service and Adversarially Interoperable Apps
Applications like NewPipe and Geddit seem to be becoming more popular. These applications are "adversarially interoperable": they work with and can display content from large services such ...
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Does Google routinely form contracts by accessing web sites with their crawler?
Many web sites contain terms of service, where the web site puts a link to "Terms" or similar, and anyone who accesses the web site forms a contract with the web site operator under those ...
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Two-Way Browse-Wrap
I often browse web sites that offer me contract terms via "browse-wrap": there is a link on the page to a "Terms of Service" or similar, and my browsing the web site, having had ...
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Can written notices such as company terms and conditions be rejected on grounds of being too long
Sometimes companies post 30 page terms and conditions notices that an end user must accept by clicking in a box. Can such agreements be rejected well after the fact (after clicking) on grounds like:
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Can I amend boilerplate contracts by mail?
I am party to a number of contracts (website terms of service, for example), where a service operator writes the contract, and I agree to the contract by using the service. If the other party wants to ...
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Can companies legally make unreasonable term of service?
Say you buy a software. There is a term in the term of service that you got to pay $1 million dollar/become sex slaves, etc.
To what extend companies can do that?
There are 2 cases where something ...
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Should I use first-person (I) or second-person (you) for ToS consent?
This is a bit of a nagging question for me. Let's say I'm creating a web application that allows users to sign up for some service, subject to certain terms of service. I've seen some sites use first-...
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