Friday 4 November 2011

James Sherwin Solicitor- Software License Agreement to Protect your Business


The software license agreements are used to protect the intellectual property rights of software creators. It offers a contractual cure against the user for neglecting to fulfill anything that is mentioned in the agreement. The agreement also contains the legitimacy of the location which helps to save cost in future when any dispute occurs. The evaluation software has different terms and conditions and these are required to purchase from the author. These are also called as beta software. 

This software is used by installing it on individual’s computer. The license may be granted by one party or many. Its use may be limited somewhere. The agreements may be assignable or not. Some of them are limited to country only and modification access is also given to some particular people. Some of them have acceptance installation conditions. Under this, user has to accept certain terms to install and use it like they have to pay some amount.  Sometimes the maintenance of software is also mentioned in it. It is in the case when you are paying amount in advance to save your software in future. It should be mentioned in the agreement that what facilities they are offering you. To avoid confusion procedures, timelines and maintenance fees are also mentioned in the agreement.Thus it lowers the risk and protects your software.

If you are looking for more information regarding business laws then you can contact at James Sherwin Solicitor.