Check It Out: Tips on Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products
Summary by Stephanie Blundell

I don’t know about you, but the fall always means renewals for our organization, online contract renewals that is. Like you I already have research coming out my ears, invoices to process, reports due, a website to update, and a meeting in five minutes. What are the odds we are going to remember all the tricky points of an agreement to look for in order to get the contract signed, cancelled or changed before it automatically renews?

Fortunately Paul Pedley, in the September 18th issue of Free Pint, summarized ten key points from his book Practical Guide to Negotiating Licenses for Electronic Products. This concise article highlights some of the main issues a licensee needs to remember before signing an agreement with a content provider. Issues like exchange rates, perpetual access, indemnities to protect both you and the licensor or the reassigning of a contract in the event another company acquires the provider. These are a only a few of things we need to know. Want to know more? Check it out …

Tips on Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products
http://www.freepint.com/issues/180903.htm#tips

Practical Guide to Negotiating Licenses for Electronic Products ISBN 1904769012 is published by FreePint and is available online at: http://www.freepint.com/shop/report/

Other related articles and presentations:

Negotiating and Analyzing Electronic License Agreements by Duncan E. Alford
http://www.aallnet.org/products/2002-38.pdf

 

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