Endorse
the Principles
12 Principles for Fair Commerce in Software
and Other Digital Products
By endorsing the 12 Principles for Fair Commerce in Software
and Other Digital Products, businesses and institutions
will join our collective voice for creating positive
change in the digital marketplace. Endorsers support
the following tenets, the 12 Principles for Fair Commerce
in Software and Other Digital Products:
1. Customers are entitled to readily find, review and
understand proposed terms when they shop.
2. Customers are entitled to actively accept proposed
terms before they make the deal.
3. Customers are entitled to information about all known
defects in a product before committing to the deal.
4. Customers are entitled to a refund when the product
is not of reasonable quality.
5. Customers are entitled to have their disputes settled
in a local, convenient venue.
6. Customers are entitled to control their own computer
systems.
7. Customers are entitled to control their own data.
8. Customers are entitled to fair use, including library
or classroom use, of digital products to the extent permitted
by the federal copyright law.
9. Customers are entitled to study how a product works.
10. Customers are entitled to express their opinions
about products and report their experiences with them.
11. Customers are entitled to the free use of public
domain information.
12. Customers are entitled to transfer products as long
as they do not retain access to them.
We________________________________________________________________
Company or Organization name
endorse the 12 Principles for Fair Commerce in Software
and Other Digital Products that promote a fair playing
field that protects the legitimate intellectual property
rights of vendors and the fair expectations of quality,
privacy and reasonable use of purchasers. We authorize
the use of the company or organization name on the www.fairterms.org
website.
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Name ___________________________________________________________________
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