February 2009
2 posts
Digital Rights Management
The FTC is looking into the impact of digital rights management on consumers. In its public comments, the EFF has strongly advocated that DRM is cracked frequently on introduction and eventually break a consumer’s ability to use the products that they bought and paid for. It’s fascinating that this issue is now being considered in the consumer rights rubric, considering that, just a...
Feb 10th
Indemnification and you
Indemnification is one of those “boilerplate” clauses which some licensing attorneys (including  myself) love to mess with. Generally, the provision’s purpose is to deal with the balancing of risks in a situation when one of the contracting entities is sued by a third party over a set of events. Generally, these are events over which, as between the parties, the indemnifying party has control. ...
Feb 6th