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How to provide a legally valid license or “terms of use” for a web application

I am looking for information on granting a license or "terms of use" for a web application. The Wikipedia article is very limited, and it seems that unlike “downloadable” software (or perhaps “installable” software, due to the lack of a better term), for which much more information is not written much specifically for web licensing applications.

Could you say that hiring a lawyer to create legally sound “conditions of use” or disclaimer is absolutely necessary for your web application?

Someone asked: what jurisdiction? My answer is here: all over the world. I suppose this opens up another topic, that is, what jurisdictional restrictions you should take into account.

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Hire a lawyer. Unwanted (and expensive), it seems, may cost you even more to make your TOS erroneous.

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Before hiring a lawyer, determine in which country (legal) you work on the Internet. You can indicate in ToS that the laws of country X apply. There is no such thing as "international Internet law," so choose a country.

The US law does not specify much, so you can dictate terms. EU laws dictate much more about what can be put in TO. American lawyers are not very versed in EU laws on protecting the interests of the EU and vice versa :)

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What do you hope to cover? Are you worried that your code is stolen or someone is doing something stupid behind what they see on your site? (Or something else completely.)

Could you change to expand what you hope your disclaimer or conditions will hopefully cover?

Hiring a lawyer may well be the most reliable advice, but the wrong lawyer who is asked the wrong questions can end in disaster ...

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