Things that shouldn’t count as force majeure

Define the term “force majeure” for me.  Looking online, there are several: it’s French for “superior force” act of God: a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events  (WordNet) a common clause in contract which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the [...]

Third Party Providers

Happy New Year! I saw an interesting article today that high-tech vehicles were posing problems to some mechanics.  The mechanics claim that they can’t afford the thousands of dollars that are necessary for them to obtain the specialized diagnostic tools for each auto manufacturer.  The manufacturers are claiming that they’re trying to protect their intellectual [...]

As the year draws to a close

Hopefully, most of you are done with work for the year.  But for those of you about to close end of year, firesale-type deals in the remaining 6 days of the year (the end of the year is even a Thursday, so you don’t have to “work” a weekend if this is your fate), here [...]

Updating Contract Language for the 21st Century

Holly Towle wrote an excellent article on the boilerplate contract language issues that might now exist in your contract language.  Read the article… consider the issues… review your templates.  Make some changes.  Of course, you can always just call me and I’d be happy to review your contracts for you.  The Licensing Handbook Blog is [...]

GPL, WordPress and Themes

I saw an intriguing post the other day by Jennifer Schiffer on WordPress, themes and the GPL.  She linked to a video of Matt Mullenweg (one of WordPress’ lead developers) who was talking about why WordPress was a GPL product (short answer: they didn’t really have a choice because WP is based on b2, which [...]

This Week on The Web 2009-10-11

These are the discussions that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again.  Come join the party on twitter (follow me here and you’ll participate in the conversation live.) I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below.  Sorry.  [...]

Announcing the Software Licensing Education Series on DVD

The saying goes that you don’t appreciate someone else until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. The same can be said for appreciating process. While it is still extremely easy to create new digital works in almost any medium, converting them – especially for sale – is still challenging. So it gives me great [...]

This Week on The Web 2009-10-04

These are the discussions that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again.  Come join the party on twitter (follow me here and you’ll participate in the conversation live.) I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below.  Sorry.  [...]

This Week on The Web 2009-09-28

These are the discussions that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again.  Come join the party on twitter (follow me here and you’ll participate in the conversation live.) I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below.  Sorry.  [...]

Insurance Basics

Over the span of my career, I’ve seen thousands of insurance sections in various contracts.  At the beginning (and at certain employers), I would have to run this section by the insurance people in the event of any changes to our template language.  But as time went on (and with a different employer), we really [...]

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