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[Music] I'm knockin Burroughs principal Thomas lawyers none displays is an award-winning technology intellectual property and corporate law firm it also passionately dedicated to these areas practice so in this video I'd like to discuss the software development agreements two different broad types of software development agreements common clauses that you'd expect to find in those documents and some of the link I put pitfalls in software development so just what is a software development agreement it's generally a contract where a developer would have multiple developers greet build software for their client there are two broad types of agreements approach was agile and waterfall methods in both cases there is a need for precision in drafting the clauses in these agreements to ensure there's now a misunderstanding or Mis specification about what has to be developed and how and when and any software development agreement typically includes details such as the clients requirements the scope of the development project and includes a range of substantive clauses to give effect to the meaning of the between parties so some of the particular causes include causes of detail the development stages the deliverables the deadlines for the project and as experienced developers will understand there's a significant difference between agile and waterfall madness regarding water for being a fixed set of scope of requirements that doesn't change very much however either version of agreement needs to consider issues such as intellectual property rights to source code content as may be created a lot of projects and background IP which might be reserved for a party's exclusive use and similarly either type of agreement may include provisions relating to the developers restraint to particularly client against them creating an to perfect product common intellectual property clauses includes things such as reserving the copyright to the code in that it might vest with the original author the problem in software development is that is that this can mean that the client doesn't actually own the actual code it's reserved the ownership is with the client depending on the scale the scale so it's very common to consider those issues and software development contracts the other the other alternative position is that the the copyright in the code could all be assigned to the client however that can cause problems for developers you may want to reuse their core code and I'll buy briefs for example I've used those libraries in core systems which they reuse or license such as the some sort of CRM system or CMS content management system so would these sorts of issues it's important to particular eyes each party's intellectual property rights in the contract before the project starts and one important thing to realize is the copyright must be assigned in writing a simple verbal contract or I guess in scope of yours it's not good enough it must be in writing we commonly deal with these sorts of problems on a day to day basis so if you're looking for a technology savvy law firm to revise on software development agreements or in any aspect of a software development dispute don't hesitate to give me a call on three w1w1 three an obligation free and confidential discussion thanks for watching