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Did you know Sellotape don’t want you to link to their website without their prior permission? It says so right on their copyright page.

Shame they‘re not so ‘net savvy to provide a handy contact form expressly for this purpose, or even any kind of online contact form at all. According to their contacts page, some of the other countries in which they operate are emailable, but not the UK base, and it states that the website is subject to UK law.

The only information they provide are addresses and ‘phone numbers. Perhaps they don’t want people to discover their crappy frames-based website, which means that even if they do give their permission, it’s not simple to link to specific pages without breaking the layout of the site [as you see with the link to their copyright page].

Note to Sellotape’s legal team: all cease and desist orders may be communicated to me via my handy contacts page, which is rather unlike the one Sellotape don’t provide. Upon receiving such a request I will of course immediately remove all links to Sellotape’s website, and replace them with links to one of your competitors.

Update: mrtn also commented on this, a whole minute before I did.

The following is an entry which follows on from the above:

1. So sue me... [onlysomuch - blog]. Excerpt: I've heard before that Sellotape is really protective of its trademarks, but surely the pronouncement that: "Hyperlinking to this site, is not permitted without the express prior permission of Sellotape" (oops, did it again) is a bit over the top?...

#1

Gordon | 2004 / 06 / 29 – 22:48

Brilliant! HAHAAA

#2

the manly smell | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 11:34

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Up the revolution!

[Edited by commenter — 11:36]

#3

David | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 12:59

Re #2: Thank you comrade. :) [By the way, what’s happened to your site?]

#4

the manly smell | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 15:42

Dead.

#5

David | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 15:48

Re #4: Aw, ‘tis pity. :(

#6

the manly smell | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 16:19

Cheers ears, but I just ran out of humour.

#7

Jann | 2004 / 07 / 02 – 19:23

Re #6: Never stopped me…

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