Legal Affairs Team
In assisting with the exploitation of your software IP rights in the digital age in taking your software product and/or service to market, the Federation and its members may give guidance on:
- Business models (whether delivery of copies for installation and licensing implications (e.g., click wrap, whether to licence object code, open licensing), web/application service provider (ASP) - software as a service (SaaS), bundled with hardware, one off solutions, open/closed source)
- Consideration of:
- Support / maintenance agreements
- Licensing models
- Laws and regulations affecting software contacts
- Preparation for negotiations
- Drafting software licenses/agreements (heads of agreement/MOUs)
- Techniques of negotiation
- Outsourcing
- Loan of hardware & software
- Data processing / transboarder dataflow
- Federation thought leadership programme:
- Open source
- Virtualization
In ensuring your customers (end users) are compliant, we and member lawyers of the FAST Legal Advisory Group (FLAG) provide guidance on:
- Software compliance Strategies
- FAST guidance on effective software license compliance
- Mediation
Internal software compliance is a legal must rather than a nice to have, accordingly, we have written practical guidance on how organizations may tackle the issue, download our FAST guidance on effective software license compliance [link to PDF]. Contact us for a list of organizations which may assist.
