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Title	The Software Developer's and Marketer's Legal Companion: Protect Your Software and Your Software Business/Book and Disk
Author(s)	Gene K. Landy
ISBN	0201622769
Language	English
Published	October 1993
Publisher	Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Of a work in another field, I said that the term "companion" was unjustified. In this case, the title is valid. Landy's book is generic, as it must be in this most unstable of fields, but is well-presented and of value in many aspects of the business. The book itself only takes up about half the space in this volume. I have frequently noted authors who dwell too much on specific U.S. instances of their topic. Landy, while using American statutes and cases, deals with the general legal concepts. Thus, this work is probably widely applicable with recourse to local advice for particular details. Topics include copyright, trade secrets, employee non-competition, negotiations, beta test and evaluation agreements, assignments, developing and publishing agreements, shrink-wrap licenses and warranties, end-user agreements, liability, trade marks, patents, intellectual property and choosing a lawyer. The latter half of the book includes a number of legal resources, the bulk of which are sample forms and agreements for legal business. These are also included on a 1.2M diskette in both WordPerfect 5.1 and ASCII format. For the small software developer or marketer, this is worth many times the cover price. Its value lies not only in the drafting of legal documents, but in an understanding of what can, and what can't, be protected. As such, this book can help direct the product development and marketing long before legal agreements become necessary. (Postscriptum - as usual, the author has had a chance to respond to the draft review. He liked it, but asked me to add that "the book is not meant to substitute for legal counsel, but it is intended to make the reader a smarter consumer of legal services -- and help you know when you do or don't need counsel." This is sound advice. But wouldn't you just know, it sounds just like a software license disclaimer :-) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994
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