Jemima Pereira: If you write a poem on a bathroom wall, the
owner of the restaurant isn’t obliged to erase it at your
whim. Nor should he have to let you back into the bathroom to edit
it yourself. He can stick a neon Guinness sign in the bathroom next
to your poem. If he happens to hoist his double-wide restaurant
onto the back of a trailer and move it to another city (or
country), then the bathroom goes with him and he’s still not
obliged to do anything about your poem. [via
Phil Ringnalda]
One of the amusing things about most legal debates is that one
can generally find a number of "precedents" that amount to rough
analogies; and each can lead one to very different conclusions.
I personally like conclusions that minimize obligations for all
concerned.
funny, before following the link, i thought this was about the google toolbar thing, though the analogy didn't work nearly as well there.
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