About this course
Our Tech Contracts Master Class™ series has four on-demand courses covering all they key terms in IT contract. You can take all the courses in a bundle or any combination of the four.
Enroll and receive a year's access. Return to any chapter - whenever you need it.
This 1st course introduces IT contracts and the key issues they raise. Then it turns to the prime clause: the central promise from each party – from the customer, vendor, or distributor.
Topics covered include:
- The role of IP in IT contracts
- The key types of tech contracts
- On-premise software licenses
- Subscriptions for SaaS and other cloud services
- Software ownership transfers
- Payment, including revenue recognition
- And more ...
You can review a sample chapter 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: 1 hr. 51 min. (CLE 1.75 hrs.)
Recorded October 2024.
Curriculum
- Introduction (8:56)
- Lesson 1 - The Real Job of the Contract Drafter (8:12)
- Lesson 2 - IP in IT Contracts (11:32)
- Lesson 3 - Types of Tech Deals (11:05)
- Lesson 4 - The Prime Clause (2:35)
- Lesson 5 - On-Premise Software License (14:16)
- Lesson 6 - Prime Clause in the Cloud (7:14)
- Lesson 7 - Promise of Professional Services (2:43)
- Lesson 8 - Software Ownership Transfer (15:07)
- Lesson 9 - Prime Clauses for Combination Contracts (4:35)
- Lesson 10 - Promise of Payment (24:40)
- Course Completion & 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.
Tech Contracts Master Class Bundle
Interested in taking all 4 Master Classes? Our 4-course bundle comes with a volume discount of more than 10%.
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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