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Just checking a few random movies.

Movies I checked that have this disclaimer:

- Despicable Me 2

- Django Unchained

- Inception

- Jurassic World

- James Bond: Spectre

- Avatar (extended cut)

- Spaceballs

Movies I checked that don't have this disclaimer:

- Tangled

It's usually among the very last lines of the end credits, among the statements about dedication to the environment, distance from the tobacco industry, lack of animal abuse etc. If you're not watching the end credits you will never notice it.

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Ah got it. I thought the author meant the disclaimer came right in the beginning of the credits. Thanks for clearing that up!

"If you're not watching the end credits you will never notice it." Which of course, makes it mostly meaningless.

If you want these things to have any meaningful legal effect, people have to know it.

So, EULAs and TOSes have no meaninful legal effect?

You cannot agree to what you cannot read so anything that can only be read after purchase is not part of the contract that you agreed with the seller.

Historically that's correct.

The software industry has routinely been denied enforcement of their agreements by the way they make users agree to them

The reaction is some companies have slightly different agreement things such as making you scroll to the bottom first

But then everyone decides again that the risk is pretty low and user engagement matters more and the tos agreement stuff takes a backseat again

At least in Germany, any clause that the average user wouldn't expect in such an agreement isn't binding.

But you should have known it if you watched the entire movie (which includes the credits).

If you're concerned, after-credit scenes are a good way to force people to sit through the end credits. Then the defense "I left earlier and thus didn't read that" becomes "I was talking to my friend while that disclaimer was on screen and thus didn't read it".

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