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How Important is End-User License Agreement in Vietnam?

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How Important is End-User License Agreement in Vietnam?

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  1. How Important is End-User License Agreement in Vietnam? End-user license agreement (EULA) is a legal agreement enter between two parties which are software developer or provider and software user. Terms and Conditions could cover a large scope of matters, for example, payment schedule, privacy policy, providing service to third party, solving arisen disputes and even inclusive of EULA. Whilst, EULA almost focuses on agreement of giving the user using software right and includes the regulations related to grant of license, limitations or using period of the software. Normally, after the user downloads the software and officially install it, an EULA would be shown out for user to understand its rights and obligations and agreed to. EULA may be called by different names which are License Agreement, Software license agreement, etc. What is the nature of EULA? This is an commitment which developer or provider create and user must abide by before installing the software. However, this does not mean from the time user agrees to EULA, user will be the owner of the software. The user only has the legal using right to that software. Some important matters to consider would be granting of license, limitation of granting of license, and IP. Firstly, “Granting of License” is a prerequisite of this agreement when clearly state that user will be granted using software right. Secondly, the term “Limitation” is also a very important term of EULA as after installing, user may utilize the software in lots of purposes which are both legal and illegal and may affect the software developer/provider or any third party. Thus, this term particularly regulates the activities which users are not allow to do while using the software. Thirdly, “Intellectual Property” is a pretty popular term in almost all type of agreements to protect the developer in copyrights. Besides, there are other terms such as “software update, maintenance and technical assistance, ability limitation, regulated law, etc.” and for each particular case and purpose of the owner, the agreement might also cover other appropriate terms. End User License Agreement is a very important agreement attached to the software to guide the users and protect rights of the software developer or provider. Therefore, this agreement should be anticipating all cases as software owner wish to avoid disputes and even in the case of violation, the agreement will be the starting points to recover the damages to the developer and software owner.

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