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Links to the Sites. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a hypertext link to the homepage of the Sites, provided such link does not portray Cingular Wireless or any of its products and services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory manner. You may not use a Cingular or Cingular Wireless logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of Cingular or Cingular Wireless to link to the Sites without the express written permission of Cingular Wireless. This limited right may be revoked at any time.

Is this already an illegal link? After all I am not linking directly to their homepage…

Verizon Wireless does the same (to avoid legal trouble—I am not linking to their page).
Now we all know that these is some lawyers talking (and the question if this will stand in a court remains open)—but what happened to the Internet being a place where linking was encouraged? And what about a consumer who has a complaint about the service of those companies?

Doesn’t this once again very much sounds like: “We don’t care about you.”?

What’s next: Companies forbidding us to say their name?

Whoops—Google already does that:

Participant agrees not to do the following, except with the advanced review and written approval of Google: issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter relating to this Agreement (including the fact that a meeting or discussion has taken place between the parties) or mentioning or implying the name of Google.

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• Frank Kanu on Monday, May 7th, 2007 @ 20:54
  
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