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The worst practitioner of these practices in my opinion is Cusip Global Services. They say you can't label column in your database "Cusip" without signing a li
by jgalt212 12y ago
The worst practitioner of these practices in my opinion is Cusip Global Services.
They say you can't label column in your database "Cusip" without signing a license agreement with them. Furthermore, such license agreements make you force similar licenses upon all your business partners.
- MichaelGG 12y agoCitation/link/further information?
- jgalt212 12y agogeneral info: https://www.cusip.com/cusip/cgs-license-fees.htm#cgs-licensing-policies-faqs https://www.cusip.com/cusip/cgs-license-fees.htm#cgs-licensi... as to forcing other business partners to assert that they also are Cusip license holders, I have seen and been asked to sign agreements with such clauses attached.
- ams6110 12y agoLOL never heard that. Many databases and reports I developed for an investment banking firm in the 1990s were infringing I guess....