IP Donation?

I saw this on the intertubes today and found the image hilarious, but the concept really academically interesting. Would such a donation attempt actually hold water? Can a copyright holder effectively turn his/her IP over to the public domain this easily? What if you’ve registered with the US Copyright Office? Anyone [...]

Software Licensing Trends from Techknowledgyblog

Steve Cosentino has a decent list of software licensing trends posted on yesterday’s Techknowledgyblog
http://techknowledgyblog.squarespace.com/techknowledgy-blog/2008/2/22/software-licensing-trends.html
It’s rare that an attorney in this space actually knows what he’s talking about - but Steve seems to know his stuff (ie: I agree with his position).
The Licensing Handbook Blog is the companion site to the Software Licensing Handbook. Covering [...]

Einstein and Business

Max Kalehoff is a marketing expert. He’s also a fan of Einstein - yeah, Albert. In a stroke of pure genius, he realized that Einstein figured out marketing. Check out this list of 10 quotes from Einstein and Max’s commentary from a recent post at OnlineSpin.
1. “Imagination [...]

Y2K+38

Some folks think I’m crazy for continuing to include Y2K-type language in my software licenses.
[Special appearance of the Wayback machine: For those of you who don't even know what I'm talking about, back in the day, we were concerned that software was going to stop working on January 1, 2000. The fear was [...]

Performance Review

What do you do about non-performing (or poor-performing) service providers?
Well, I hope that you have an agreement that will cover you in three ways: 1. Allow you to “reject” the service and refuse to pay for the bad service. 2. Allow you to keep what’s been done so far (say, software [...]

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