Information technology
Members of the Technology & Media Team have worked in industry either as software developers or in-house counsel for software houses and have unique insights in to what the key issues are for developers and customers alike.
Getting us involved at any early stage can often save a lot of time and costs later on in the process.
We are engaged in the following kinds of work for our clients:
- Assignment of copyright in software
- Literal and non-literal infringement of software copyright
- Protection of software
- Data transfer/migration
- Escrow agreements
- Joint authorship
- Licensing disputes
- Network sharing arrangements
- Outsourcing arrangements systems procurement
- Application Service Provider arrangements
- Paperless office – legal admissibility of scanned documents
- Reverse engineering and decompliation/interoperability issues
- Software/system implementation/integration agreements
- Software development agreements
- Software licensing (different licensing models) agreements
- Software maintenance agreements
- Software specifications
- Standard function libraries
- Systems procurement/disputes
- Transitional arrangements
- Disaster recovery agreements