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 help you redline your documents.  The missing product for this trinity is one for document assembly.  WhichDraft makes a huge [...]

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 IT!  This is why I harp on making sure that you have the proper provisions in your contract(s) for confidentiality, [...]

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 box.  When your hardware breaks, do you know what the warranty will cover?  Probably not. Neither did the creators of [...]

Insulting Opening Offers

Thanks to Victoria Pynchon for the link!

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 hand, appears deal-specific and too different to really discuss in detail.  I simply can’t tell you that a 30% discount [...]

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 can’t do it in the US (or the rest of the Berne Convention countries) under most licenses which have express [...]

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 has everything to do with copyright.  So it’s still applicable.  The Licensing Handbook Blog is the companion site to the [...]

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 full-sized.) The current economic situation is encouraging many organizations to reconsider their current contractual relationships. Contact me before your opponent [...]

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 state adopts these rules, I will probably recommend what commenter Sean Hogle recommended – the addition of yet another disclaimer. [...]

Interesting Tidbits

I’ve not done this before, but given that I just got off vacation and have an inbox that would scare most people, I thought a few tidbits of things passing my desk might be of interest to you: The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the United States A White Paper on Insurance Coverage [...]

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