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Old 02-24-2008, 12:09 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
this may be a really stupid question but when i buy content i always buy as an agent for the corporation, that legal entity owns the content licience not me personally.

IF the corporation is sold then the licience would not have changed hands (corporation 186555 would still be the owner of the liciense)
the owner of the corporation would be the liciencee.

From the sounds of what you are saying, anyone stupid enough to buy from you can never sell their program, never take on partners (since that would change the owners of the corporation) never retire and never go public.
You come to me and I ask you to send the new buyers to me so I can get them to sign the transferred license. It's that simple and I do it all the time. I might ask the new buyers of the company to make a purchase of content, often I don't bother.

Make sure when you buy a licenses it's clearly licensed to the company and not you. Make sure you obtain a copy of the license signed by the licensor and make sure you abide by all the terms in the license.

I've seen on Ask Damage some of the mis information being posted here. I will put it right.
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