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April 1, 2020Buck McKinney

Attachment E - Synchronization License for Copyrighted Works

This is a synchronization license for a copyrighted work. This is document 6 of 6 of Creating the Sounds of Our Lives.

Jurisdiction And Venue In The New Texas Business Court: Practice Pointers For Drafting Business Agreements And Organizational Documents

Every year businesses organized in, having a presence or principal office in, or otherwise actively engaging in business in, the great state of Texas enter into hundreds of thousands of written contracts to govern their business arrangements (“Texas contracts”). Many of these Texas contracts include provisions expressing the parties’ agreements regarding the state, or subdivision of a state, in whose courts any litigation arising in connection with the contract will be conducted (choice of forum) and the specific county, city or court within that forum in which litigation arising in connection with the contract is to be conducted (choice of venue). Those agreements have been formed based upon the parties’ understanding of the laws of Texas and other leading commercial states governing the subject matter jurisdiction and geographic jurisdiction of their courts as established by statute and judicial decision.

Forum Selection, Jury Waiver, and Choice of Law in Acquisitions

The forum in which controversies relating to an acquisition are litigated can have a significant impact on the dynamics of the dispute resolution and can also affect the outcome. The forum selected by the buyer usually will be its principal place of business, which may not be acceptable to the seller. Often the seller will attempt to change the designation to a more convenient forum or simply to confer jurisdiction in the forum selected by the buyer without making it the exclusive forum.