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                This is what happens when you let lawyers loose
                                        
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> 
>   1. License. AutoZone.com, Inc., (“AutoZone.com”) hereby grants to you,
>      and you hereby accept, a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to
>      display a Link (as defined below) to the home page of AutoZone.com on
>      the World Wide Web site(s) owned or operated by you and identified
>      above (the “Linking Site(s)”). Such Link shall consist solely of the
>      AutoZone logo (the “Logo”) as specified by AutoZone.com from time to
>      time. You may not modify, edit or in any way alter the Logo in any
>      manner. Nothing in this Agreement shall grant you any rights in the
>      Logo, the AutoZone.com site or any other intellectual property of
>      AutoZone or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, other than as
>      expressly set forth herein. For purposes of this Agreement “Link”
>      shall mean a hypertext link located on the Linking Site(s) which shall
>      only link directly to the home page of AutoZone.com located at
>      www.autozone.com (as such URL may be modified from time to time), and
>      which shall be implemented by the Linking Party solely in accordance
>      with this Agreement. 
> 

Via my dog wants to be on the radio, [1] AUTOZONE.COM LINKING AGREEMENT [2] 

And that's item number one of a four page document! I also like item five,
which forbids me from using the data in my own log file if I can determine if
a user clicked on a link pointing to AutoZone.com. [3] This is such
silliness. Me, print, sign and fax back a document just to link [4] to their
site? [5] 

I can see their concern over using their logo, heck, Slashdot [6] had
problems [7] with using the IBM [8] logo (but they were resolved
fortunately). But linking? [9] Linking? [10] 

Who let the lawyers out? 

[1] http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/
[2] http://www.autozone.com/Roadrules/links/Linking_Agr071100.pdf
[3] http://www.autozone.com/
[4] http://www.autozone.com/
[5] http://www.autozone.com/
[6] http://slashdot.org/
[7] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/10/21/1311253
[8] http://www.ibm.com/
[9] http://www.autozone.com/
[10] http://www.autozone.com/Roadrules/links/body_links.html

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