Selling your Everything II: More on non-competition clauses, IP assignments/waivers, and employment contracts

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on the subject of over-reaching employment contracts. Click here for it. Anyway, I promised that I would have the next part up within days and well, it's been kind of crazy. Between ...

Selling your everything: Non-comp clauses, IP, and employment contracts

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 4 Comments »

I would like to write, today, about a murky subject I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. The various forms the germ of this post has assumed over those weeks all stem from a particular type of clause ...

Shysters be Gone, part III

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

In part II, I identified two types of antisocial behaviour which we attempt to prevent, restrain, correct, punish, etc., with law: “those which harm the integrity of society, potentially leading to its collapse; and those which alter the dynamic ...

Shysters be Gone! part II

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

We ended the first post in this series with the question, "Whence comes the ethical imperative, 'Don’t be a Shyster!'?" Now we will get into it: I would like to draw an ephemeral line between moral and ethical laws - just follow ...

Shysters be Gone! part I

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

Contract law has, at its core, the ethical imperative, "Don't be a Shyster!"We impose a lot of positive duties with law in a complex "evolved" society. These are the things we tell people they are expected to do, in contrast ...