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 2009-08-16

The things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again: RT @gtiadvisors: RT @AdvertisingLaw: Blog Post: Content Protection and Copyright http://bit.ly/1Q0CX New blog post: Confidentiality Exclusions versus Disclosures http://bit.ly/4qYdND Tech workaround could allow MS-Word sales to continue: http://bit.ly/haM2S If you buy/sell software, get your [...]

Amazon’s Orwellian Behavior

As many are reporting, Amazon.com “recalled” an e-book remotely in response to a request by a publisher.  This is all kinds of scary and most folks are centered on the purely tangible nature of the problem.  I’m also concerned about the precent it sets, but I’m more concerned about the sapping of intellectual property rights [...]

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 [...]

Assigning Software Licenses

Last week, we discussed Assignment, primarily as it relates to services-type work and the issues that come up in that particular arena. This time, we’ll add additional complexity by dealing with software license assignment. [Note: the term "assignment" is used with respects to rights and the term "delegate" is used with respects to obligations. I [...]

Assignment and Transferability

Assignment is the ability to redirect an agreement (or a portion of an agreement) to another party for some purpose. In many situations, it’s a way to allow a third party the ability to perform some subset of contractual responsibilities (ie: a subcontracted electrician or programmer). In the case of say, a credit card cardholder [...]

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