About this course
Small mistakes can cost a fortune in SaaS and other cloud contracts, including agreements related to artificial intelligence. This program will help you avoid the most typical errors, ranging from simple to subtle.
Enroll and receive a year's access. Return to this video resource - or any chapter - whenever you need it.
Topics covered include:
- Misunderstanding fundamental cloud concepts
- Mistakes in managing prompts, other input data, and outputs from generative AI
- Confusing cloud subscriptions - including SaaS and AIaaS - with software licenses and professional services
- Treating indemnities like warranties or remedies
- Accepting SLAs with eyes closed
You can review a sample chapter right here.
As usual, your instructor is David Tollen, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, attorney, UC Berkeley lecturer, expert witness, and sought-after speaker.
Length: c. 1 hr., 15 min. (CA CLE 1 hr.)
Recorded Oct. 2024
Curriculum
- Introduction (6:06)
- Lesson 1. Misunderstanding Fundamental Cloud Concepts (13:22)
- Lesson 2. Mistaking Privacy for Data Protection (13:12)
- Lesson 3. Mistaking Indemnities for Warranties and Remedies (10:52)
- Lesson 4. Failure to Account for Gen-AI Weirdness (14:27)
- Lesson 5. Doing SaaS/Cloud Escrows Wrong (or at All) (11:00)
- Lesson 6. Accepting SLAs with Eyes Closed (15:00)
- Course Completion and Resources
An individualized certificate is generated when you complete the course.
CLE: Tech Contracts Academy On-Demand programs are approved for Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) credit in California, and we provide a CA CLE certificate (self-study). Jurisdictions elsewhere (and professions) differ on whether students may apply individually, and if so what’s required. See here for details about CLE.
Your instructor
David W. Tollen is one of the industry’s leading authorities on software contracts, including agreements about artificial intelligence, as well as SaaS and other forms of cloud computing. He is a sought-after speaker, and he’s been widely recognized for making complex topics easy to understand and engaging.
David is an attorney, the founder of Tech Contracts Academy, and the author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, a perennial bestseller from the American Bar Association. His experience includes teaching IT contracts at UC Berkeley Law School and work and testimony as an expert witness, as well as service as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company and as VP of Business Development for a tech startup. He began his career at Morrison & Foerster, a global law firm, and ultimately founded Sycamore Legal, PC, a boutique law firm focused on IT contracts. David's clients have ranged from Silicon Valley startups to some of the most influential companies in the world.
David graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley.
David's teaching style is informal and fun. He focuses on the business issues at stake in IT contracts.
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