Re: licence under 2 laws?

["Lesley Ellen Harris" <lesley@copyrightlaws.com>]

Pam, what's the wording of that clause...as it may be that one country is
for the governing law under which the license is to be interpreted and the
one country is the country where any litigation would actually take place.

Lesley

----- Original Message -----
From: Pam Davies <lib6pmd@library.novell.leeds.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: licence under 2 laws?


> Colleagues,
>
> We have been asked to sign a licence which says that it is governed by
> both US and UK copyright laws, and that "Customer acknowledges that it and
> its Users have no right to make copies [....] except to the extent
> permitted by such copyright laws."
>
> Where the two laws differ, how does that leave us and our readers:  if
> something would be permitted under one law and not the other, does our
> User have the right to do it or not?  Any thoughts, especially from UK
> colleagues?
>
> Pam
>
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