In service contracts, termination for convenience clauses often call for a long notice period. The customer (usually) can terminate for any reason, but it has
“Don’t cross the streams,” says Egon in Ghostbusters (the 1984 original). “It would be bad.” Why? “Try to imagine all life as you know it
Here’s a typical grant of rights from a software end-user license agreement (EULA): Provider hereby grants Customer a license to use 30 copies of the
by David W. Tollen and Nathan Leong You’re a lawyer looking for online software and other tools to run your firm—tools like email, word processing,
We’ve posted a new contract in the forms library — and it’s available in MS Word (no charge, as always). It’s meant to serve as
Managing and sharing big data creates technical challenges unlike anything found in traditional data-sharing relationships. But big data contracts don’t involve a whole new field
A lot of software licenses grant the recipient the right to “use” software. But the use license springs from a misunderstanding of copyright law. As
In last week’s post, I addressed the myth of idea ownership. I explained that no one can own an abstract idea. I also argued that,
Most IT contract drafters know the difference between a software license agreement and a technology services contract. In a license, the customer gets rights to