Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India | NLSIU Bangalore alumnus | Contracts and technology lawyer in India Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, against the Copyright Act, 1957 (text as published by the Copyright Office, Government of India) The short answer If your software […]
Category Archives: Contracts & Agreements
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India | NLSIU Bangalore alumnus | Contracts and technology lawyer Last reviewed: 15 October 2026 Quick answer An arbitration clause in your terms of service says users must bring disputes to a private arbitrator instead of a court. […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India | NLSIU Bangalore alumnus | Contracts and corporate lawyer Last reviewed: 15 October 2026 Quick answer A letter of intent (LOI), a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and a term sheet are all documents you sign before the […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India | Contracts and IP lawyer Last reviewed: 12 October 2026 Quick answer A joint development agreement (JDA) is a contract between two or more parties who build a product, technology or piece of intellectual property together without […]
TL;DR: Running an e-commerce business in the US means complying with a genuinely layered set of federal and state requirements most founders underestimate until something goes wrong, FTC advertising and shipping rules, a patchwork of state sales tax nexus obligations since Wayfair, CAN-SPAM for every marketing email, ADA website accessibility, and state-specific privacy laws that […]
TL;DR: A SaaS reseller agreement governs a fundamentally different relationship from your standard subscription terms. Instead of a direct end-user paying you, a third party resells, rebrands, or bundles your software under its own commercial relationship with the end customer, which changes who owns the customer data, who collects and remits sales tax, who’s liable […]
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Quick overview: This guide isn’t another price list. It’s about why the range you’ll see quoted, anywhere from a couple of thousand rupees to well into six figures for the same-sounding task, actually varies as much as it does, and what genuinely drives the number up or down for your specific situation. For our own […]
TL;DR: A liquidated damages clause fixes, in advance, what one party owes the other if a specific breach occurs, most commonly a delay in delivery or completion. Whether that clause actually holds up depends heavily on which country’s law governs the contract, and the test has genuinely shifted in recent years in ways many templates […]
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TL;DR: In most of the world, a verbal agreement can be just as legally binding as a written one, provided it has the basic ingredients of a contract, offer, acceptance, consideration, and an intention to be legally bound. The real risk with a verbal agreement was never enforceability in principle. It is proof in practice, […]
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TL;DR: Being accused of breach of contract is not the same as having actually breached one. A genuine defense may fully apply, the accusation may be a pressure tactic, or the real issue may be a dispute the other party is dressing up as breach. What you do in the first few days after the […]