May 12, 2008

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Welcome to Your WEBSITE LAW ALERT by Chip Cooper and DigiContracts.com

Chip's Commentary:

The 45th Annual Shrimp Festival was last weekend on Amelia Island in North Florida. It's a major event for such a small town -- the visitors numbered in excess of 20,000.

There's a great parade on Thursday evening to kick off the weekend. Everyone in town is either in the parade or watching it.

The rest of the weekend is devoted to blessing the shrimp fleet, arts and crafts, pirates -- and of course, eating all kinds of shrimp dishes. Good stuff!

Recent Developments On The Litigation Front:

As you know, the law relating to online contracting is now relatively settled.

This is good news for ebusinesses sites with Membership Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Terms of Sale, SaaS Agreements, Content License Agreements, and the like. For a detailed review of the requirements for an enforceable online agreement, click here.

In a couple of recent cases, human intervention in the online contracting process caused 2 online contracts to be legally unenforceable. I'm sure that the vendors involved probably assumed that human intervention would only enhance the contracting process. Not true, according to these cases.

For a discussion of these 2 cases and how human intervention caused a relatively simple recipe for success to become as disaster, click here.

Comments From Digicontracts.com:

I've been asked whether we would consider drafting a package of the basic documents for website legal compliance for a quoted fee -- rather than on the basis is the typical hourly rate.

After some consideration, I concluded that the idea has real merit, so we have introduced a fixed fee approach for these documents. For more details of this fixed fee "Do-It-For-Me option, click here.

Of course, in our fee agreement, there are some limitations for purposes of limiting the scope of work to the basic documents.

If you have any questions, email me at ccooper@corplaw.net.

Regards,

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