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.