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I'm sensing poor reading skills. This seems to be the offending bit: "If we receive a legal claim about your RSS content, we will tell you so that you can reso
by glenra 11y ago
I'm sensing poor reading skills. This seems to be the offending bit:
"If we receive a legal claim about your RSS content, we will tell you so that you can resolve the issue, including indemnifying Apple if Apple is included in the claim."
That does not ACTUALLY SAY "you agree to indemnify Apple." It's a conditional with a lot of preconditions but even if they were all met it obviously doesn't constitute a legal requirement. It's saying "if it happens to come up that somebody sues us, we'll help you resolve the issue, which may involve us AT THAT TIME asking you to indemnify Apple as part of some sort of agreement we haven't yet put forward."
It's a heads-up. At some point in the future IF legal exposure becomes a problem they expect that they will have a policy about it which would involve the publishers deliberately and explicitly agreeing to an ACTUAL CONTRACT in which both sides get some tangible benefit. This email is not that contract.
- mikeash 11y agoThe entire thing is offending. They sent me a bunch of terms which I'm expected to implicitly "agree" to unless I explicitly opt out. As I say in the title, I do not agree to the terms. Maybe they don't need me to agree in the first place. But the fact that they're trying to get me to agree in this fashion is idiotic. The content of the supposed agreement is almost irrelevant.
- monochromatic 11y agoIt's a poorly constructed sentence, but nothing about it reads (to me) as "Apple will help you resolve the issue."