Individual Evergreen Clauses

Fred Stutzman over at Unit Structures laments the issue of individual auto-renewing agreements (like those of any kind of subscription you may sign onto).  He’s rightfully upset about his individual circumstance, and even without reading the specifics of the ZipCar agreement (I’m sure there is one somewhere), the basic business practice is the issue – [...]

Putting you on Notice

The concept of notice seems fairly simple.  In advance of a particular date, usually by some multiple of 30 days, a party is required to send the other party a letter (“notice”) of their intent to take some form of action.  Notice can be required for extending or terminating an agreement, asking for price increases [...]

Weighing in on AIG

Everyone’s buzzing about bailout money being used to pay for AIG executive bonuses – to the same folks’ whose division was the one that caused AIG to fail. Even President Obama was on camera, promising to do something about it. The House of Representatives released copies of the contracts that are supposedly preventing the government [...]

More on 5-9 Availability

I had a few posts on 5-9 availability in the last two years.  Today, ZDNet reports that 3Tera is offering 5 9′s.  The really positive thing I saw in the article is that 3Tera plans to provide automatic SLA credits in the event of downtime that blows the metric – which, if there’s truly 5-9 [...]

The 500s Track of the Software Licensing Education Series is now available

Designed for the busy or on-the-go professional, the Software Licensing Education Series (SLES) is video-based training on the complete gamut of software licensing topics. Presented in a college-course level format, with topics increasing in complexity and building upon prior lessons, the SLES allows an audio-visual learner another way to gain knowledge on licensing topics.  Each [...]

Contracts Technology

Everyone wants to find ways to do their jobs more efficiently.  Technology helps, of course, as portions of a job that are ripe for automation are the first places where technology can step in.  I’ve argued in the past that we, however, are in a unique position – that the jobs we typically do aren’t [...]

Why I Don’t Usually Hand Out Templates

Deven Desai over at madisonian has a great post on Theory and Law Practice. I’ll let the article do itself justice, but the explanation for understanding theory is exactly why I usually demur when asked to provide templates, either here on this site or within the Software Licensing Handbook. Giving the template to someone is [...]

Moody’s Bottom Rung

Moody’s released their Bottom Rung list the other day – the list of 283 out of the 2073 companies they review that they think are most likely to default on their debts. Moody’s Bottom Rung 3.1.09 – Get more Business Plans Thanks to Supply Exellence for the scoop – and a more detailed analysis of [...]

Delay in Acting

Frank Scavo over at the Enterprise System Spectator noted an interesting situation brewing between Vaughan & Bushnell and Infor (the latest incarnation of a company originally called SSA Global), first reported in NetworkWork. The situation isn’t uncommon.  V&B licensed software from SSA in 1987.  That same year, it received an upgrade of the product.  V&B [...]

Notes from the “I told you so” file

Well, it didn’t take too long.  C-Net reports today that Google inadvertently shared some Google docs files with folks they weren’t supposed to be shared with. Lifehacker ponders whether this is a “minor privacy blunder”. Meanwhile, Google is busy blaming it on the user (italics are mine):  “We’ve identified and fixed a bug which may [...]

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