Pennsylvania (PA) Licensing CLE Course Catalog

Learn what you need to know about the Dark Web, including blockchain technology and its role in trademark transactions.

This course is the first part of our series on “Contract Drafting for Beginning Transactional Attorneys.” It can be watched on its own or as part of the series. In addition to the course content described, we will give practice notes for drafting, negotiating, and advising clients and relate the material here to other parts of this series.

In this program, our experts will discuss standard licensing and how “open licenses” differ. They will describe the business model around open licenses, some terms of art, and some practice pointers around client use of open source. Most of the program will center around Creative Commons licenses for openly licensing content.

You’ll learn about the different “characteristics” licenses and how they may be limited in ways like duration and geographic area. We’ll do a deep dive into using APIs in the software context and for music licensing in the content creation context. We’ll briefly introduce concepts open licenses which are becoming increasingly important which will segue into the next program in our series about open licensing and creative commons. Throughout, we will give practice notes for drafting, negotiating, and advising clients around license agreements and relate the material here to other parts of this series.