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The Licensinghandbook Blog is the companion site to the Software Licensing Handbook, a guide for the drafting, review and negotiation of software licenses and related contracts or agreements.
Recent Posts
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...
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 diagn...
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” ...
Comic: Why you should have a lawyer negotiate your contracts
Change “lawyer” to “contracts professional” and you’ve got it. ...
The Numbers All Go To Eleven
A few years ago, I got into a little issue at work. I had found that my negotiation dial could go all the way to 11. Being the Type-A person that I was, I learned how to crank it to 11 on a regular basis. And like the child whose mother warns h...
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 a...

