Alex R. wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ehrenberg" littledanehren@yahoo.com
And are you implying that, if I press "I agree" on a click-through license on software, then I don't have to follow it?
The license is binding on children. If it wasn't then children could not buy video games, videotapes, books, etc. no one would sell it to them. Children enter into contracts all the time.
That depends on where they are. In BC law a child can only be held liable in a contract for necessities. (Wkipediholics might have a hard time convincing the courts that Wikipedia is a necessity. :-) ) Those who sell video games, etc.to children do so at their own risk The most likely kind of dispute is for not having paid for the game, and these end up too bad for the vendor. If vendors had to rely on some kind of assurance that the child could properly agree to the licensing agreement the entire video game market would collapse. Concerned parents would be loath to agree to these as a way of keeping the kids away from games. If these children do not develop a video game "addiction" during childhood, they are much less likely to be customers when they grow up.
We can certainly add text about minors to the Terms and Conditions (maybe it should be called Submission Standards, terms and conditions sounds too much like contract boilerplate that no one may ever read). But getting permission from their parents?
Oh, no! More wrds! :-)
What about marital property? Should a wife get her husband's approval because he might later say that she is wasting valuable marital property by releasing it under the GFDL?
The nimber of possible variations is endless.
Ec