Library Futures Digital Licensing Clause Bank
From the Clause Bank
Vendor templates are drafted to favor vendors. That’s a function of how commercial licensing works, and it means the document in front of you is a starting position, not a finished agreement. The work of negotiation is recognizing what the template’s doing, identifying the clauses where the default isn’t workable for your library, and moving the document toward language both sides can defend.
About the Project
The Library Futures Digital Licensing Clause Bank provides library workers with the information they need to push back on overly-restrictive vendor language and to come to terms everyone can agree on.
By offering specific examples of pro-vendor language, pro-library language, and reasonable fallback language for a wide variety of digital vendor licensing clauses, the Digital Licensing Clause Bank provides the tools for libraries to have a full and fair seat at the table when negotiating terms for their patrons. An included Companion Doc explains in greater detail what’s at stake in each negotiation point and explains more about the wording of each clause. In addition to the online version, the Clause Bank is also available as a PDF download, and as a searchable website.
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The Library Futures Digital Licensing Clause Bank was developed by Layla Maurer, Esq.