[SWLUG] Kindle Warning?

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Nov 15 13:09:10 2010, Neil Jones wrote:
> But one little piece of the terms and conditions really alarms me
> " solely for your personal, non-commercial use."

Right... I suspect that means that you can't directly make money out  
of it.


> Even if you think you have a definition it might
> be up to a court to decide on it. So you can read a book at home  
> but not
> use the knowledge gained in work?

Ah. Well, firstly, that's very unlikely to be the intent or the  
interpretation.

Secondly, even if it went to court, Amazon would not only have to  
convince a judge (and possibly jury) that this was the only  
interpretation, but also that you had in fact done so - that is, your  
knowledge gained had been solely due to a book you read on a Kindle  
and nowhere else.

That seems like a tricky thing to prove - indeed, companies trying to  
restrict fields of endeavour for ex-employees have had the same basic  
problem, and that one has very specifically been thrown out of court.

Dave.
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