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I Signed Off On This
Short case studies on the clauses, checks and sign-offs that decide what happens next.
I Signed Off On This is written by Zachary Wells and published by OSAS, at securityosa.com.
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The bowl of M&Ms was an audit
Takes the brown-M&Ms clause in a touring rider and reads it as what it was, a cheap test of whether the counterparty read the document, then turns the same question on acceptance criteria that are checked by asking the supplier whether it complied.
Two courts read the same sentence
Follows one exclusion clause through two courts that read it in opposite directions, and uses the split to show that a limitation of liability is not a settled number but a reading that can go either way on appeal.
In the event of the dead rising
Starts on a joke exception written into a game engine licence and lands on the ordinary field-of-use restriction underneath it, which is the same clause that decides whether a product may lawfully be used where it is already deployed.
Nobody lied about the chicken
Uses a 1960 dispute over what a single word in a specification meant to show how a definition that both sides read confidently and differently is resolved, and who carries the loss when neither party was dishonest.
Eight thousand people sold their souls
A checkout-page stunt clause that almost every customer accepted becomes the way in to assent: what it means that agreement is the default outcome of not reading, and what the minority who found the opt-out were actually demonstrating.
Fourteen days
A notice sent two weeks past a renewal deadline costs a full further year of a service already rejected, and the piece is about who in an organization is supposed to be holding that date.
They complained out loud
Quotes a deemed-acceptance clause from a staffing supplier and sets two courts against each other on whether that kind of term binds, one voiding it as too unusual and one enforcing it recently.