Three years ago I highlighted the way a company called Evrsoft decided how people could link to them. It was very precise – to the pixel – and to be honest was a pile of nonsense. A link is a link and I’ll be damned if I am going to ask anyone to link. My site, my choice. They improved it hugely – http://www.evrsoft.com/linktous.shtml – though mentioning Netscape dates them somewhat.

Terms of Use
Permission to Link
You may link to the US-CERT web site by using “US-CERT” as a text hyperlink. If you wish to use an image of the US-CERT word mark, send email to webmaster@us-cert.gov and include the URL of the web site where you plan to place the link.
http://www.us-cert.gov/privacy.html

So the United States Government want to vet the image and the site and presumably get into an argument over the niceties. Don’t they realise that people on the internet and not in the USA may want to link? That they may not have read the Terms of Use (after all, who reads those eh?) and they may, just may, wish to ridicule in some way. So why start a fight you cannot possibly win? It’s the frigging internet and you shouldn’t need permission to link anywhere with any image and with any text and for any purpose.

Unless you want to link to vnunet. You should read all this little print first. http://www.vnunet.com/about/linkingtermsandconditions

http://advertising.gawker.com/legal/
RSS feed use
Gawker Media reserves the right to object to your presentation of the RSS feeds and the right to require you to cease using the RSS feeds at any time.

This one is odd. I can see why but I can’t see how. How do you stop a Fair Use? I’m sure you will have considered this yourself though seeing as “Please read this statement carefully before proceeding to access any of the GM Sites.”

I’m sure there are wackier things out there and yes I can see why from a legal pov why they are there because the fact they could act on something unwritten means there is no need to try and details so much surely?