Legal Questions

A friend of mine and I are planning to start a new company in the US. He and I are full time employees on different companies, but we are planning to invest out of work hours/weekends to start our...

Software Legal USA

asked Mar 11 '11 at 07:03

Tivo
35 points

I'm thinking of starting a business. It would be a website that would act much like a social-bookmarking site. It would be funded by selling data about websites and this data would be collected...

Legal Data

asked Mar 11 '11 at 18:13

Dan Waterworth
118 points

Do any of the following six scenarios give rise to Conflict of Interest, for me and my company and/or for the other person and his company: I appoint a well-connected professional on my company's...

Legal Conflict Of Interest

asked Mar 13 '11 at 12:41

Aaron Smothers
56 points

I've developed a low volume high priced product, which I currently sell in the EU market. A UK based company would like to sell my product in countries including the US. I don't want to start...

Legal Distribution

asked Mar 13 '11 at 18:21

Steven F
66 points

Is there any legal documents or agreements that I need to show to my beta testers? Basically cover things like, they won't decompile it, that I am not responsible for any damage etc. I don't...

Legal

asked Feb 22 '11 at 17:46

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

I am licensing my software to my software distributor reseller. My reseller wants to use my license agreement that should be signed between us and Licensee. Does that make sense? If it does then...

Entrepreneurs Legal Partnerships Legal Documents

asked Feb 10 '11 at 05:27

Stacey
484 points

I'm looking for a network that matches lawyers to people looking to get a contract written or have a bit of legal work done. I know there are lots of freelancing sites and networks out there for...

Legal Legal Documents

asked Feb 14 '11 at 15:11

Tbaums
298 points

here in my country there are a lot of sell-buy-type sites like ebay somewhat. Two of them are the most popular. I'm thinking in creating a website that when you list something to sell, it...

Legal Website

asked Feb 15 '11 at 06:08

Carlosdubusm
16 points

I need an agreement for this but not sure what type of agreement for this. I have an independent sales agent who want to market our software and provide installation and first level customer...

Legal Partnerships

asked Feb 16 '11 at 06:34

Stacey
484 points

I worked with a new partner to create a customer before we signed a var agreement.(we had a NDA though) We sold the customer our software but the actual contract for the sale will not take place...

Legal Partnerships

asked Feb 17 '11 at 01:27

Stacey
484 points

If I am selling to an SMB or enterprise should I have seperate agreements for license and annual maintenance /tech support?

Contract Legal

asked Feb 17 '11 at 02:56

Stacey
484 points

A company (which consist of one person) wants to sell my software (underour brand name and license agreement) but wants to do installation and 1st level support to the customer but doesn't want to...

Legal Legal Documents

asked Feb 18 '11 at 04:22

Stacey
484 points

I am in a current situation that I need some advice on, I think it will be easiest to explain with a simplified example. I am involved in a startup company that specializes in software development...

Legal Partnerships

asked Feb 19 '11 at 08:17

Shane
326 points

My friend had a fantastic idea for an iPhone game. I am currently working on it, as he lacks the technical expertise at the moment to work on such a large project. Here's my problem: what is an...

Legal

asked Feb 20 '11 at 12:35

Brobd
53 points

This may seem a little off topic and I apologize, but this is the closest SE site I can think to post on regarding my issue. I live in the state of Illinois. I have an app in the Apple iPhone...

Legal

asked Jan 26 '11 at 15:02

Maq
197 points

The site www.listia.com uses credits as a way to buy goods through auctions. These credits are not real money with the exception that you can buy more credits with real money if you desperately...

Recommendations Legal Consulting

asked Jan 27 '11 at 18:46

Shir
51 points

I have an idea for a web app that will target to a specific audience and will collect news and blog articles, analyze them (for keywords, trending topics and more) and then display the article...

Legal Copyright

asked Jan 30 '11 at 18:41

Mike T
174 points

I have two companies that have interest in licensing my business's content (training materials). I want to offer exclusive and non-exclusive pricing options, maintenance fees (for annual updates),...

Pricing Sales Legal Licensing

asked Jan 31 '11 at 07:22

User6935
36 points

I've formed an S-Corp in California for a small local business. Like many small business owners I'll be operating the business out of my home. What expenses can the corporation pay for without...

Legal Tax Corporate Structure

asked Feb 1 '11 at 08:08

Mcohen75
157 points

I know there are tons of sites out there that list song lyrics that are surrounded with advertisements and pop up ads. I don't imagine the song writers had this in mind when they were writing their...

Legal Copyright Licensing

asked Feb 6 '11 at 07:20

Scott
468 points