About this course

Few contract-drafters really understand data, particularly the fact that you can't own meaningful IP rights in data. So contracts often address data rights poorly, particularly in agreements about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other cloud services. Plus, new, complex issues arise when AI-related contracts grapple with data terms - particularly contracts for purchase or sale of generative AI. This course addresses all these issues and explains the terms you need to manage data.

Enroll and receive access for 100 days.

Topics covered include:

  • “Ownership” of data and the limited value of IP
  • Rights in prompts, training data, and outputs from machine learning, particularly gen-AI
  • Data indemnities and the problems they raise
  • Promising privacy compliance, or not
  • And more …

You can view a sample lesson 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., 25 mins. (CLE 1 hr. See details below.)

Recorded September 2024

Curriculum

  Data Terms in AI and Cloud Services Contracts
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We generate an individual certificate when you complete the course.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Credit is available!

  • California: Tech Contracts Academy is an approved CLE multiple activity provider (MAP). Your CA CLE credit is “participatory” for attending live webinars, “self-study” for watching on-demand courses and recordings of webinars. Credit is “general” unless a subfield is also identified on a course’s sales page. 
  • Other Jurisdictions: We provide a certificate and other resources that may assist students seeking credit outside California. (Jurisdictions differ on whether students may self-report or apply individually and, if so, what’s required.)
  • See here for more details about our CLE.

Pricing

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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