Slashdot links to an article about a 1906 record, which shows that the music industry’s stringent EULAs and licensing terms are nothing new. The back cover of the sleeve states that unless the disc was sold to them for more than one dollar, the user does not have a licence to play it and it becomes the property of the record company. It also includes some bizarre clauses about the licence becoming invalid if the label on the record is defaced. Great stuff.

Slashdot post, here, links to Natch.net, here. Found via BOL, here.

Posted Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 @ 2:30 am
Filed in business and productivity, copyright and drm, science and tech

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