Tips on Tech Contracts #4: Limitations to software license restrictions

In this installment of Tips on Tech Contracts we will review several statutory exceptions under EU law which put up a barrier to the license restrictions that a software vendor may impose. When it comes to software licensing, the software vendor normally wears two hats – that of a copyright holder and that of a…Continue reading Tips on Tech Contracts #4: Limitations to software license restrictions

Tips on Tech Contracts #3: Software Escrow

The software escrow (also called source code escrow) is one of the complex concepts existing in the realm of IT agreements. Despite being an advanced notion, this article will attempt to bring it down to earth and explain it in a simple and practical manner. Moreover, after reading this text you may decide for yourself…Continue reading Tips on Tech Contracts #3: Software Escrow

Tips on Tech Contracts #2: How to protect source code

There are two technical terms that you will often encounter when going through the pages of a software licensing agreement or a software development agreement. These are source code and object code. Nevertheless, before elucidating those concepts of source code and object code, it would make sense to first clarify what software is. Like many…Continue reading Tips on Tech Contracts #2: How to protect source code

Tips on Tech Contracts #1: Main types of IT agreements

In this first installment of Tips on Tech Contracts we will focus our attention on some of the most common types of information technology agreements – software licenses and IPR assignments, cloud agreements, professional services and managed services agreements and hardware agreements. Software licensing agreements and IPR assignments At the core of each software…Continue reading Tips on Tech Contracts #1: Main types of IT agreements

Google v Oracle and the copyrightability of APIs

On 5th of April 2021 the US Supreme Court handed down its decision on the decade long legal battle between Oracle and Google regarding the copying of code from the Java API. This article will present a summary of the case as well as an analysis of its outcome and some additional thoughts on the copyrightability…Continue reading Google v Oracle and the copyrightability of APIs