Web and Software Development: A Legal Guide with CD-ROM SYNOPSIS
Protect your rights, and your hard work!
The laws covering website and software development are complex and
confusing, but if you don't untangle them, it could cost you thousands of
dollars in attorneys' fees and lawsuits.
Fortunately, Web and Software Development
decodes this complex area of the
law, thoroughly and in reader-friendly English.The book also provides
contracts, agreements and legal forms on CD-ROM, with step-by-step
instructions for filling them out, so you can protect your software and
website without paying a lawyer's ransom.
Use Web and Software Development to learn:
what kind of intellectual-property protection you need
the strengths and limitations of each type of protection
how to avoid infringement
which provisions you need when drafting an agreement
how to obtain permission to use other people's materials
You'll find complete, step-by-step instructions to draft:
employment agreements
contractor and consultant agreements
web and software development agreements
license agreements
The 3rd edition is completely updated to include website
development, as well as the latest in intellectual property law.
About the Author
Stephen Fishman received his law degree from the University of Southern
California in 1979. After stints in government and private practice, he
became a full-time legal writer in 1983. He has helped write and edit over
a dozen reference books for attorneys. He is the author of Software
Development: A Legal Guide, Copyright Your Software, The Copyright
Handbook, Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements, Wage Slave
No More: Law & Taxes for the Self-Employed, and Hiring Independent
Contractors: The Employers Legal Guide, all published by Nolo.
FROM THE CRITICS
John Dvorak - PC Magazine
An amazing book! A must for anyone in the software business... Answers
nearly every legal question you can imagine and some you would have never
thought of. Highest recommendation!
Entrepreneur
Covers every imaginable detail important to such a rapidly growing and
intangible medium.
Jeff Duntemann - PC Techniques Magazine
This book passes my own personal test for legal guides -- that it be
easily readable for people who detest lawyers -- and passes it with higher
marks than any other legal guide I've come across.
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