> * 1. License. AutoZone.com, Inc., (“AutoZone.com”) hereby grants to you, and you hereby accept, a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to display a Link (as defined below) to the home page of AutoZone.com on the World Wide Web site(s) owned or operated by you and identified above (the “Linking Site(s)”). Such Link shall consist solely of the AutoZone logo (the “Logo”) as specified by AutoZone.com from time to time. You may not modify, edit or in any way alter the Logo in any manner. Nothing in this Agreement shall grant you any rights in the Logo, the AutoZone.com site or any other intellectual property of AutoZone or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, other than as expressly set forth herein. For purposes of this Agreement “Link” shall mean a hypertext link located on the Linking Site(s) which shall only link directly to the home page of AutoZone.com located at www.autozone.com (as such URL may be modified from time to time), and which shall be implemented by the Linking Party solely in accordance with this Agreement.
Via my dog wants to be on the radio, [1] AUTOZONE.COM LINKING AGREEMENT [2]
And that's item number one of a four page document! I also like item five, which forbids me from using the data in my own log file if I can determine if a user clicked on a link pointing to AutoZone.com. [3] This is such silliness. Me, print, sign and fax back a document just to link [4] to their site? [5]
I can see their concern over using their logo, heck, Slashdot [6] had problems [7] with using the IBM [8] logo (but they were resolved fortunately). But linking? [9] Linking? [10]
Who let the lawyers out?
[1] http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/
[2] http://www.autozone.com/Roadrules/links/Linking_Agr071100.pdf
[7] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/10/21/1311253
[10] http://www.autozone.com/Roadrules/links/body_links.html