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If you're involved with negotiating your digital licenses - here's an
article that may be of interest to you. It's not specific to geospatial
data ... but has some good tips.

Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources - Deal Breaking License Clauses,
by Kara Phillips
http://www.llrx.com/columns/deal4.htm