{"id":13729,"date":"2016-03-02T15:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:57:38","slug":"legal-issues-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/legal-issues-for-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Issues for Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kitchensinkwp.com\/podcast-e103-interview-with-david-sparks\/\">Adam Silver<\/a> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/macsparky.com\/blog\/2015-02-kitchensinkwp\">David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kitchensinkwp.com\/podcast-e103-interview-with-david-sparks\/\"><p>Frankly, when you think about it, one of the ways people come after developers and web guys is they don&rsquo;t just say &ldquo;You screwed up and I paid you $5,000, so I want my $5,000 back.&rdquo; They will say &ldquo;You screwed up and as a result my website was down for two weeks and I lost $150,000 of revenue because of it and I want you to pay me that.&rdquo; You want to &#8230; The contracts I write for my clients, a lot of the times we have, and this is something out there that you should talk to your lawyers about if you are doing this, it is called a &ldquo;Limitation of Liability Clause&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Another thing you do is you put a clause in there that says interest, that allows for interest. Not only if they don&rsquo;t pay you and your attorney fees, you are going to collect interest on the money. You should also put a clause in there, especially if you are working outside of your home base, a lot of developers work all over the place, is to put local jurisdiction. Make them have to come to court where you live.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Silver interviews David Sparks: Frankly, when you think about it, one of the ways people come after developers and web guys is they don&rsquo;t just say &ldquo;You screwed up and I paid you $5,000, so I want my $5,000 back.&rdquo; They will say &ldquo;You screwed up and as a result my website was down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,31,209,30,71],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13730,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}