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David Tollen, bestselling author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, explains contracts on a growing list of topics: A.I., the cloud, on-premise software, and more

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Learn all the key clauses in agreements about AI, the cloud, on-premise software, and more.

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"David's expertise and deep knowledge of tech contracts is unparalleled, and his training has had a transformative impact on our team's skills and capabilities. He has an exceptional ability to break down complex concepts into practical frameworks that our attorneys can readily apply in their day-to-day work. "

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“Once again David Tollen has done the impossible ... taken one of best treatises on IP contracting and made it even better.”

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A federal court just held training AI on unlicensed books IS fair use

June 26, 2025

This week’s musings on tech contracts… On Monday, a U.S. federal district court held that AI vendors don’t infringe copyright when they train gen-AI on unlicensed books. The “fair use” exception protects AI training. The decision in Bartz v. Anthropic is bad news for authors, artists, publishers, and other copyright-holders.

“Social Loafing” and the Problem It Creates for Contracting AI

May 21, 2025

In psychology, social loafing refers to “the phenomenon where individuals exert less effort in a group task than when working alone, often due to perceived reduced accountability and shared responsibility,” according to Simply Psychology. Unfortunately, social loafing doesn’t require a group. We loaf when we’re working with artificial intelligence too.

What’s agentic AI, and how does it compare to typical gen-AI for contracting?

May 16, 2025

In an agentic AI system, “AI agents” take autonomous action, based on preprogrammed instructions. Those actions could involve multiple steps, multiple tasks, but the AI agents still perform without human intervention: without prompts. So agentic AI requires less direction than typical gen-AI. And it can work while you sleep, while