[kwlug-disc] (Website) Disclaimers and other (unfortunately) necessary / useful language?

[Bob Jonkman]

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AFAIK, the announcement for cookies is only required within the
European Union. https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/

There's the Canadian anti-spam law which covers things like requiring
consent before installing software on computers
http://fightspam.gc.ca/ But what about Javascript? Nobody ever asks me
about running their Javascript in my browser.

But a question for B.S. - What are you trying to accomplish? If you
don't want people to copy your floppy then something like "Copyright
(c) 2017, All Rights Reserved" should do the trick. If you want to
disclaim responsibility for things people post then something like
"The views expressed are not those of the website owner." Or if you
want to excuse yourself for copying other people's floppies then
"Music and Pictures belong to their rightful owner", as is seen
frequently on YouTube and so must be legally binding, right?

I doubt any disclaimer you put up has any legal weight at all, but IANAL.

- --Bob, who never reads those disclaimers anyway.



On 2017-01-08 09:48 AM, Chamunks wrote:
> I don't know any catch all sources but it seems that there some
> regulation as of late that requires that you explain your cookies
> to your  visitors as irritating as I find having to close off the
> dialog box on everyone's websites I appreciate the attempt at
> transparency.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017, 9:02 AM B.S. <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I do not mean to start a flamewar here, nor a deep discussion
>> ...
>> 
>> What are people using for necessary language on things like
>> websites, be it disclaimers, opinions, notifications, whatever
>> else I can't think of at the moment?
>> 
>> And by this I mean, is there a well respected site listing the
>> types of things one should have, and I can just copy?
>> 
>> I have a curious itch that <something> should be in <there>.
>> (Context here is a website, but I suppose a web page is a
>> document, so document requirements would be encapsulated within
>> website requirements.)
>> 
>> I get gpl, creative commons, etc. - happy to suck in their
>> language, but not looking to discuss 'merits' here.
>> 
>> I just want to cut, paste, or otherwise suck in or link, then
>> forget about it and get on with creating the content in the first
>> place.
>> 
>> Somewhere in eff.org or something?
>> 
>> 
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