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Originally Posted by Turtle91
lol probably. But since I'm an engineer and not a lawyer that would be natural.
I wonder how many of their readers are lawyers...or do they not expect anyone to read the copyright? Seems to me that if they wanted people to actually follow their copyright then they should put it in plain, unambiguous, language understandable by the non-lawyers.
In my line of work we try really hard to make sure that individuals do not get used to ignoring the warnings/alerts that are there to save their lives. They do ignore them if they happen too often when they really shouldn't - we call them "nuisance alerts". Copyright statements like these are just begging to be ignored...and thus teach individuals to ignore all copyright statements.
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Engineers are an absolute necessity. Lawyers have to create the need for their existence. Hence the deliberate ambiguity and the mindless copy-paste perpetuation of such notices. Removing ambiguity means leaving no margin for interpretation, and interpretation is the bread and butter for lawyers.