Understanding Risks and Avoiding Lawsuits – Negotiation of the Master Services Agreement
Recently, I received a call from an attorney trying to figure a way out of a Master Services Agreement for his client. His client, the purchaser, was stuck owing a lot of money to a technology vendor under a Master Services Agreement that was not working for the client. The problem – – there was no protection under the contract for the purchaser […]
Business Blog Round Up: YouTube, Coffee Cups, Anna Nicole and Identify Theft
Ashby Jones of Wall Street Journal blog writes an intriguing post about the Google and Viacom lawsuit concerning Viacom’s claims of copyright infringement against YouTube (Google subsidiary). The post recites how Viacom employees were uploading copyrighted copies of their own videos to YouTube to help prove that YouTube was not promptly removing videos that […]
Fraud Lawsuits In Connecticut – Is A Promise of Happiness Fraud or Puffery?
Debra Cassens Weiss yesterday posted on article on the ABA’s website about the psychic Sean Morton who is being sued for fraud for taking 6 million dollars from investors on the promise of piles of money and spiritual happiness. The Securities and Exchange Commission is bringing the suit and the main theory is that Morton is […]