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Brazil: Wordpress amends T&Cs and avoids blanket ban

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 @ 08:40 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Internet & Telecoms, Software & Tools
Languages:: Portuguese

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Renata Solano [pt] welcomes the news that the blogging platform Wordpress has made a change on its Terms and Conditions in order to avoid a blanket ban in Brazil. The new line added in the 2nd section covers the court decision by banning blog clones: By making Content available, you represent and warrant that […] your blog is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company.

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May 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
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