Any EULA experts here?

   / Any EULA experts here? #1  

newbury

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I'm looking for a program/app that will scan a EULA and flag suspicious parts. Like signing away your rights to sue any part of the company.
It's getting so one has to sign a EULA to get a glass of water.
 
   / Any EULA experts here? #2  
No app required. Just highlight the whole thing :)

Seriously, though, I think you need to assume that you are giving up all rights, they can collect any and all data and use it anyway they want, etc, etc. It will be as one-sided as the law allows.
 
   / Any EULA experts here? #3  
Does ANYONE ever read them in their entirety?
 
   / Any EULA experts here? #5  
An EULA, or End-User License Agreement, is a legal contract between a software developer or publisher and the end-user of the software. It outlines the terms and conditions under which the user is permitted to use the software. Essentially, it defines what the user can and cannot do with the software.
 
   / Any EULA experts here? #7  
I have, many times, for both work and personal use. I'm of the same opinion as @hayden. Many have links to other documents that include further rights for them. Almost all include the rights to sell any and all of your information to anybody that they might care to do so for pretty much any purpose, up to the limit of the law, and sometimes beyond if the agreement has not been appropriately modified for end user location. Europe and California come to mind.

My favorite was one EULA that included the rights to your first born male son, or his earnings. They caught a lot of press for it, and at the time, it wasn't clear what their intent was.

Despite being boilerplate, companies have historically prevailed in their rights in EULA. In almost all cases, you are not getting ownership, you are getting a usage right, that may be terminated.

Then you have Facebook's creation of shadow profiles of non-users, based on using information from Facebook's current users. So far, there hasn't been a legal precedent to delete the shadow profiles data.

Personally, I think that if someone has EULA concerns, that they shouldn't be using the software in question. The EULA coverage is generally very broad, in my purely non-legal, amateur opinion, and should not be relied upon.

All the best,

Peter
 

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