Licensinghandbook.com
"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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LegalTED
If you’ve never heard of TED, you should check it out! (If you’ve gone to TED, please let me know.) Anyways, TED’s an annual conference designed to bring the best thinkers together from the entire…
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More on using other people’s work
I’ve written before on the topic of using other people’s work as the basis for your contracts. Google apparently didn’t learn that they need to not necessarily borrow from themselves, either, for the EULA related…
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Creating the Batphone
One of the most common stumbling blocks most contracts people encounter is simply getting their business folks to come to them for help. In a great article from the Wisconsin Technology Network, Mark Foley lists…
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Two Dilberts on Contracts
I love Scott Adams - he has an unnatural ability to truly capture the essence of whatever he points his pen towards. The last two days have been contracts: (Click on each to see it…
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Lost in Translation
I downloaded an application this morning. All seemed well at first. The download was simple, installation was as easy as dragging the application to my Applications folder. I fully expected some sort of click-through…
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Protected: SLH p. 145, first word
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Haggle Button
An online golf retailer added a “Make me an Offer” button instead of a “Buy Now” button. Result? A 685% jump in sales. Hooray for negotiation! The Licensing Handbook Blog is the companion site to…
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Suffrage
I tend to shy away from political topics, but Victoria Pynchon has an excellent post on the topic of suffrage (the ability to vote, and more specifically, the right for women to vote). Oh, and…
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Open Source Software Conditions versus Covenants
Meredith Miller, over on ContractsProf Blog, posted part of a review of an extremely interesting case the other day from the EFF’s Michael Kwun. I won’t attempt a rehashing of the analysis - the original…
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Why Priceline Commercials Piss Me Off
As much as I love Shatner, the Priceline commercials really piss me off. Why, you ask? Well, it’s because he plays the Priceline Negotiator - a person with a blue hotline phone who gets calls…