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Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement
By Ed Bott | January 19, 2012, 1:32pm PST
Summary: Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program.
I read EULAs so you don?t have to. I?ve spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn?t allow.
I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple?s EULA for its new ebook authoring program.
Dan Wineman calls it ?unprecedented audacity? on Apple?s part. For people like me, who write and sell books, access to multiple markets is essential. But that?s prohibited:
Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software?s output. It?s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can?t freely sell it to Getty. As far as I know, in the consumer software industry, this practice is unprecedented.
Exactly: Imagine if Microsoft said you had to pay them 30% of your speaking fees if you used a PowerPoint deck in a speech.
More:
http://www.zdnet.com...-agreement/4360
By Ed Bott | January 19, 2012, 1:32pm PST
Summary: Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program.
I read EULAs so you don?t have to. I?ve spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn?t allow.
I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple?s EULA for its new ebook authoring program.
Dan Wineman calls it ?unprecedented audacity? on Apple?s part. For people like me, who write and sell books, access to multiple markets is essential. But that?s prohibited:
Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software?s output. It?s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can?t freely sell it to Getty. As far as I know, in the consumer software industry, this practice is unprecedented.
Exactly: Imagine if Microsoft said you had to pay them 30% of your speaking fees if you used a PowerPoint deck in a speech.
More:
http://www.zdnet.com...-agreement/4360
