Before placing a limit on amounts that can be transmitted, downloaded and printed, discuss the question with the campus Copy Center, then choose an amount that is based on actual use, rather than ideals. Indemnification Of the issues addressed in our interactive form, one of the most difficult is indemnification. Indemnifications may run from the Vendor to the Customer, from the Customer to the Vendor, or both. We will discuss each side's indemnification separately. There is little basis for our being asked to indemnify the Vendor of a database for anything.
Software is more complicated.
We may use licensed software in a way that creates risks of harm to third parties that could result entirely from our use, irrespective of anything the Vendor could do to limit those risks. For example, if we license patient tracking software, we could fail to enter data into the program resulting in a record that hurts someone's health care. If the software Vendor had to accept responsibility for harms that result from our use of its product, the Vendor probably could not sell the product for a reasonable price. Vendor's indemnification of Customer for intellectual property infringement We should expect that Vendors will develop their products without infringing the intellectual property rights of others, that is, without appropriating others' protected ideas or expression. There are two common ways to address this concern in a contract.