{"id":90,"date":"2012-05-05T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2012-05-05T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:08:35","slug":"these-guys-are-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"These guys are nuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a message in my inbox from Staples, Inc., asking me to review a product I buy fairly frequently. I went ahead and filled out the review form and wrote a two-word review and then clicked &#8220;publish&#8221;, but an error message came up to tell me I needed to agree to the user agreement. So I clicked on the user agreement (with a company called PowerReviews) to see if I would agree to it and found this passage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By transmitting product or service ratings or reviews (collectively, &#8220;Reviews&#8221;) to the Review Service, you hereby (a) irrevocably assign and transfer to PowerReviews all of your rights, title and interest, on a worldwide basis, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights and moral rights, in and to such Reviews; (b) to the extent the preceding assignment and transfer is ineffective, grant PowerReviews an exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual and fully sublicensable and transferable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display such Reviews throughout the universe in any media&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;re telling me I can&#8217;t publish my review on Venus, because it&#8217;s now owned by PowerReviews? I&#8217;m probably violating their intellectual property by publishing part of the user agreement. So sue me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a message in my inbox from Staples, Inc., asking me to review a product I buy fairly frequently. I went ahead and filled out the review form and wrote a two-word review and then clicked &#8220;publish&#8221;, but an error message came up to tell me I needed to agree to the user agreement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}