Interview objective: Establish contractual exit rights and genuine dependency separation before renewal.
Put this to: Counsel, the supplier’s account owner and the publisher’s engineering lead.
Why it matters to buyers: Slots Launch’s public terms contemplate service discontinuation and loss of account access. The Library of Congress’s permissions guidance also stresses adhering to the terms of the actual grant. Neither technical possession of files nor a previously working URL answers what a publisher may retain or continue using. (slotslaunch.com)
Draft framing — a good answer should cover:
- Notice, cure periods and exceptions for urgent legal or security issues.
- Exportable metadata, publisher-created content and restricted licensed assets.
- Whether an alternative distributor uses the same upstream launch infrastructure.
- The ability to disable affected embeds while retaining appropriate editorial pages.
- Credential revocation, data deletion and transition assistance.
- Replacement permissions rather than merely replacement URLs.
Sharp follow-up: “Simulate withdrawal of our most important studio. Which pages become non-playable, what can remain, and who performs each recovery step?”
Buyer output: A supplier-withdrawal stress test and a contractual exit schedule.
Treat a second reseller as a potential alternative, not automatically an independent fallback. Ask it to disclose the relevant dependencies before assigning resilience credit.
Expert quote — awaiting interview: [Approved quotation and attribution.]