Software license management, software compliance, OSS compliance, warnings
- What is software license management? Risks and opportunities
- Audit rights, audit clauses, tips and tools for SAM and auditing.
- Are your open source software licenses compatible with each other?
- Brief overview: Open source software license compliance program according to ISO/IEC standard 5230:2020 (Open Chain 2.1.) from December 2020, SPDX standard.
- How does a warning letter work after a copyright infringement?
Systematics and basics of copyright and software license law in the context of IT contracts
- Basics of IT contract law, contract conclusion, when are end-user license agreements valid? What is permitted in license agreements? Basics of Terms and conditions -Right
- Basic system of complex IT project contracts: framework contracts, individual contracts, Terms and conditions , EULA, EVB-IT, attachments, maintenance contracts, etc.
- Contractual classification of software rental, ASP, SaaS, cloud contracts, subscriptions and on-premise licenses
- Overview and classification of the fundamental legal issues and legal terms in software license agreements and IT contracts.
- Software protection under copyright law: How are ideas and algorithms protected? Copyright problems with ChatGPT, differentiation from patent law, what use are non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)?
- Is there "ownership" of software? Who has what rights? Software protection
- Copyright system: Basic overview of the exploitation and usage rights to software.
- Rights and obligations when using software, what is permitted by law, what is prohibited? Source code rights, decompilation and reverse engineering
- Overview of usage rights clauses in practice, scope of individual usage rights, important terms in license agreements, types of software licenses
- Basic structuring options for license agreements, transfer of purpose principle.
Passing on, transfer, procurement of software
- Overview of systematic design options for software license agreements: EULA and Terms and conditions for standard and individual software for in-house sales, third-party sales and purchasing, and software leasing.
- Use and transfer of licenses within the Group and in outsourcing.
- Used software licenses: Reselling allowed? Legal situation and case law.
- Risky clauses in IT contracts, maintenance contracts, change requests.
Basics of copyright law for open source software
- Systematic classification of freeware, free software, open source software in copyright law.
- Overview of license models for open source software and their compatibility, What does the copyleft principle mean?
- Brief overview of GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache.
- Dangers of using open source software in proprietary software.
Practical cases, exercises, best practice
- Practical exercises for drafting license clauses and software license agreements.
- Tips for negotiating software license agreements.
- Joint discussion of your questions.
Contents
Module 1 of the seminar: Software license law, open source software and license management
Software license management, software compliance, OSS compliance, warnings
- What is software license management? Risks and opportunities.
- Audit rights, audit clauses, tips and tools for SAM and auditing.
- Are your open source software licenses compatible with each other?
- Brief overview: Open source software license compliance program according to ISO/IEC standard 5230:2020 (Open Chain 2.1.) from December 2020, SPDX standard.
- How does a warning letter work after a copyright infringement?
Systematics and basics of copyright and software license law in the context of IT contracts
- Basics of IT contract law, contract conclusion. When are end-user license agreements valid? What is permitted in license agreements? Basics of Terms and conditions -Right.
- Basic system of complex IT project contracts: framework contracts, individual contracts, Terms and conditions , EULA, EVB-IT, attachments, maintenance contracts, etc.
- Contractual classification of software rental, ASP, SaaS, cloud contracts, subscriptions and on-premise licenses.
- Overview and classification of the fundamental legal issues and legal terms in software license agreements and IT contracts.
- Software protection under copyright law: How are ideas and algorithms protected? Copyright problems with ChatGPT, differentiation from patent law. What is the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)?
- Is there "ownership" of software? Who has which rights? Software protection.
- Copyright system: Basic overview of the exploitation and usage rights to software.
- Rights and obligations when using software. What does the law allow, what is prohibited? Source code rights, decompilation and reverse engineering.
- Overview of usage rights clauses in practice, scope of individual usage rights, important terms in license agreements, types of software licenses.
- Basic structuring options for license agreements, transfer of purpose principle.
Module 2 of the seminar: Software license law, open source software and license management
Passing on, transfer, procurement of software
- Overview of systematic design options for software license agreements: EULA and Terms and conditions for standard and individual software for in-house sales, third-party sales and purchasing, and software leasing.
- Use and transfer of licenses within the Group and in outsourcing.
- Used software licenses: Reselling allowed? Legal situation and case law.
- Risky clauses in IT contracts, maintenance contracts, change requests.
Basics of copyright law for open source software
- Systematic classification of freeware, free software, open source software in copyright law.
- Overview of license models for open source software and their compatibility. What does the copyleft principle mean?
- Brief overview of GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache.
- Dangers of using open source software in proprietary software.
Practical cases, exercises, best practice
- Practical exercises for drafting license clauses and software license agreements.
- Tips for negotiating software license agreements.
- Joint discussion of your questions.
Learning environment
Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.
Your benefit
- You understand software license texts, usage rights clauses and IT contracts.
- An experienced lawyer will explain the system of copyright law to you in a clear and understandable way.
- You will become familiar with different license models.
- You will learn the principles of open source software licenses.
- You ensure legal certainty and compliance by being prepared for possible audits.
- You avoid copyright infringements, warnings and liability risks.
- You reduce costs for external lawyers by strengthening your own expertise.
Methods
Interactive lecture with presentation and a comprehensive script for reference, joint case work on examples from practice and your day-to-day business, best practice examples to illustrate proven methods, active discussion and exchange of experiences with other participants, practical exercise on drafting license clauses.
There will be sufficient time to answer your individual questions and case studies, which you can submit to us in advance via a questionnaire.
Recommended for
For technicians, IT managers, programmers, sales staff in companies, authorities and associations who are confronted with questions of software contract law.
For software companies that produce and distribute software and want to find out about licensing and types of licensing.
For Employees of IT and specialist departments who are entrusted with the handling of software licenses, the procurement and use of software or with compliance issues.
For in-house lawyers and in-house counsel.
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