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Non-disparagment agreement in end user licsense agreement
- Thread starter camshash
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UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
It's been in the EULA since 2015. Boilerplate legalese.
Universal Audio EULA
Universal Audio is the leading developer of audio recording products, including analog classics by Bill Putnam, and award-winning UAD plug-ins for Pro Tools, Logic and Cubase.
Bruce_Sokolovic
UADdiction Counselor
That would be some case. Wouldn’t be unprecedented for a company to go after end users for speaking their mind. Didn’t Behringer do this? A few YouTubers got letters from lawyers due to negative reviews, too. I’m not sure what the remedy would be for breaking an EULA on this basis. Maybe remove licensing from the end user? For any kind of damages, the company would have to show evidence the egg on the face resulted in real dollars lost. Not an easy sell. Then, I’m not sure if the judge would take into consideration the slander defenses/protections, which allow you to tell the truth or state obvious opinion clearly separate from fact. This would probably be an uphill fight, but I’m betting UA has plenty of money to make someone’s life miserable if they wanted to. I’m not worried. I stand behind every word I said, good and bad. Come at me bro!
chrisharbin
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, we've had this before. TWO things, one it's really no big deal imo. Two, they are a company like EVERY other company that has agreement situations. One thing that people don't understand is that when you use software in particular, you are just agreeing to use it. You don't own it. Not sure if this applies to the OP, but that's what it seems like. It's been like that since always. They have the "rules" and in order to use it, you pretty much have to agree. I don't think it's anything bad, but it might sound scary to some.
Bruce_Sokolovic
UADdiction Counselor
My question is what is the legal remedy for breaking the EULA? Does this preclude a slander lawsuit and affirmative defenses to slander?
chrisharbin
Hall of Fame Member
I dunno, was just sayin......
Sam Guaiana
Active Member
It’s near impossible to break unless you’re a massive influencer whose sole purpose in life is to sink UAD and you gather a massive following to help and you succeed.
I can sit here and say UAD emulations don’t sound that great, suck that they’re mostly attached to ancient hardware, seem clunky, release things most people don’t need, the solo crashes my computer repeatedly to no end with no help from support literally ever, they have maybe the worst support of any company, they can’t get their shit together with sales or rollouts, try to constantly pull fast ones by forcing things on users only to backpedal after backlash, and honestly all around haven’t been that great since their hardware making heydays and literally nothing will happen because a) half of it is opinion or provable truth, and b) me saying it will never ever ever affect their overall bottom line.
People need to stop being so outraged. What’s next, a freak out that we actually don’t own any of the software we purchase from manufacturers? I guess I’m happy people are finally learning to read so that’s a plus