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"Covering a licensing topic every Tuesday, I attempt to offer advice, add humor and sometimes even a bit of wit to a practice that most people find abhorrent—namely, reading a contract from start to finish."
Author: Jeff Gordon is a contract negotiator primarily involved in technology-related negotiations. He is based in Raleigh, N.C.
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Recent Posts from Licensinghandbook.com
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Repetition
In a strange twist of irony, I’m going to tell you that repeating something doesn’t make it true by pointing you to a 2006 post I wrote about Repetition. It also appears that I think…
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WhichDraft.com Document Assembly Tool
I’ve recently been focused on the wealth of new contract management tools that have been released since January 2009. We started with a tool to help you manage the finished product, then a tool to…
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Clear to Sell User Data
When Clear announced their intent to terminate operations, the big question was: “What’s going to happen to each users’ private data (things like, um, fingerprints and background checks)?” Now we know. They intend to SELL…
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Warranty Elephant
Even if you have the Novatus Contracts system, warranties for your one-off hardware purchases (software, too) are not easy to remember. Typically, you don’t even get more than the warranty card that comes in the…
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Insulting Opening Offers
Thanks to Victoria Pynchon for the link!
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Pricing Issues
In the contracting duality of terms and pricing, I spend the bulk of my time here talking about terms. The reason is generally simple – terms are fairly common across contracts. Pricing, on the other…
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License Resale
Vinnie Mirchandani at deal architect pointed out a Ray Wang article on the resale of unused licenses. My thoughts are in the comments on Ray’s article. But generally speaking, regardless of what Ray suggests, you…
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Caulfield on Copyright
Madisonian pointed me towards a recent decision by the US District Court in Manhattan regarding a potential satire/parody of JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Granted, this has nothing to do with software… but it…
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On the Fastrack, June 19, 2009
I’ve mentioned before that there are a lot of great comics out today that, every once and awhile, touch on contracts and/or negotiation topics. On the Fastrack is another: (Click on it to see it…
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ALI Approves the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts
As I mentioned a few weeks ago and now recently reported by Concurring Opinions, the American Law Institute recently approved the final version of the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. If any particular…