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Armed Forces Covered Borrower ID Statement

By faircontracts / July 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Armed Forces Covered Borrower ID Statement

As presented at a payday loan operation. Contract:Armed Forces Covered Borrower ID Statement.pdf

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Apple iPod Single Use License January 28 2010

By faircontracts / July 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Apple iPod Single Use License January 28 2010

Contract:Apple iPod Single Use License January 28 2010.pdf

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Apple iTunes Software License Agreement February 7 2010

By faircontracts / July 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Apple iTunes Software License Agreement February 7 2010

Contract:Apple iTunes Software License Agreement February 7 2010.pdf

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What’s in a Standard Form Contract? An Empirical Analysis of Software License Agreements & Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a Law and Economics Approach to Standard Form Contracts

By faircontracts / July 6, 2010 / Comments Off on What’s in a Standard Form Contract? An Empirical Analysis of Software License Agreements & Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a Law and Economics Approach to Standard Form Contracts

Professor Florencia Marotta-Wurlger has written two articles on this subject: What’s in a Standard Form Contract? An Empirical Analysis of Software License Agreements "This article provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of an important class of modern standard form contracts—software license agreements. . . I document the prevalence of terms relating to license acceptance, license scope,…

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New York Times article: Credit Card Database Is Heroic, and Mystifying

By faircontracts / July 5, 2010 / Comments Off on New York Times article: Credit Card Database Is Heroic, and Mystifying

The New York Times explains (05 24 10) how the Federal Reserve Board has introduced an online database listing the terms and conditions of more than 300 credit card issuers to help consumers find a card that best suits their personal finance needs, but which is riddled with fine print and difficult to comprehend language.…

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Click-Wrap Agreement – Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions

By faircontracts / July 5, 2010 / Comments Off on Click-Wrap Agreement – Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions

Summaries of a collection of cases analyzing online contracts. www.internetlibrary.com/topics/click_wrap.cfm

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Susan E. Gindin – Nobody Reads Your Privacy Policy or Online Contract?

By faircontracts / June 21, 2010 / Comments Off on Susan E. Gindin – Nobody Reads Your Privacy Policy or Online Contract?

Nobody Reads Your Privacy Policy or Online Contract? www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njtip/v8/n1/1/

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EFF.org – Terms Of (Ab)Use

By faircontracts / June 21, 2010 / Comments Off on EFF.org – Terms Of (Ab)Use

The time has come to shed light on what these Terms of Service agreements actually say, and what it means to users. www.eff.org/issues/terms-of-abuse

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TOSBack

By faircontracts / June 21, 2010 / Comments Off on TOSBack

“TOSBack was created to help you monitor the policies for the websites you use everyday, and show how they change over time.” www.tosback.org/timeline.php

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Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon

By faircontracts / June 21, 2010 / Comments Off on Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign — and plain English — to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us. http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_jargon.html

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