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Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : April 19, 2010
The start of another week brings a total for the LexBlog Network that'll be tough to beat: 141. Unsurprisingly, we have multiple great posts on the civil enforcement action against…
The Trademark Blog
“How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?”
Interesting SlashDot discussion on "How do you deal with pirated programs at work?"
The Trademark Blog
Text of Complaint: Free Software Group Sues Cisco Over GNU License
Information Week: "Free Software Group Sues Cisco For Open Source Violations" Comlaint FSF Cisco GNU Publish at Scribd or explore others:
China Law Insight
Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage Initiative and the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in China
There has been a great deal of media coverage in China in the past weeks regarding the impact of Microsoft’s making available its Windows Genuine Advantage (hereafter, “WGA”) to users…
ContractsProf Blog
NY Appellate Court: End User Has No Case Against Manufacturer
Here's the summary of a recent case out of New York's Second Department involving claims by an end user (grocery store operator) against the manufacturer of cash register software:On this…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Legality of “Rolling Contracts”
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University School of Law, has published "Are 'Pay Now, Terms Later' Contracts Worse for Buyers? Evidence from Software License Agreements," in volume 38 of the Journal…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Women’s Healthcare Associates, P.A. v. TSI Healthcare, Inc., March 3, 2008 (Tennille)(unpublished)
The Court overruled an objection to its mandatory jurisdiction in this case involving a software license agreement. It held, in affirming Defendant's Notice of Designation of the case as one involving…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Smart Online, Inc. v. Opensite Technologies, Inc., 2003 NCBC 5 (N.C. Super. Ct. June 14, 2003)(Tennille)
A contract for the sale of software was a contract for the sale of goods, and therefore subject to the Uniform Commercial Code. Full Opinion
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/26/08
By Rob La Gatta
Some blogs that we haven't featured much comprise the bulk of today's update.IBM's Lotus Notes users access SAP apps - Chicago-based negotiator Sam Conforti in his Software Licensing Blog Boiler…
ContractsProf Blog
Damages for Violation of Open Source License?
It's an interesting questions: What contract damages does a software developer who doesn't charged for the software suffer when a user violates the license agreement? That's one of the issues…