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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
It's not for me to send them a signed license, we are the granter of the license. It's for them to agree to our terms and sign our license. Which we sign and return. If only we sign that we agree with our terms it's a bit pointless isn't it? They agree, send it to us and we sign it and return it.
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My issue was never about waiting for them to sign it. My issue is with that the license issuer never returns a signed copy to the license holder. Thus in the future when the licensor says show me a signed copy they can not since nobody ever bothered to send the buyer a damn signed copy back. Before the sale, after the sale, hell 30 days latter, it does not matter as it does not get done.
Now if you sign a contract and they do not sign well obviously they do not have any rights now do they as the contract was never filled. You as the licensor are in a good faith situation anyways. You already know whom is allowed to use your material and can protect your rights to the full extent of the law if they can not show that they have a valid contract.
Lastly you took great issue and painfully argued that nobody had the right to register/license the content to a company or domain and then sell that domain or company and have the license move with it. Again yes your right to do this if your choose, however it is not dictated in your old license agreement that this can not be done as the content is not being transferred to someone else, ownership of the company is and the same company owns the content whom it was licensed to. This alone was purely a money grab as it was not spelled out in your old agreement. Though I nor nobody else really should pick apart the old agreements as that would just be down right mean and spiteful.
Sadly I am on your side for the most part, just not in your tone, voice, or how you went about it. I also really feel you should update your license to bring it out of the internet dark ages and into today's world to better serve your clients and to better protect your own rights.