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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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Featured Posts

Software-As-A-Service, Including AI-As-A-Service? Use Subscription (Not “License”) Terms

August 18, 2026

Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracts – including for Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (AIaaS) – grant what is described as a “license” to the vendor’s software. So do a lot of other cloud services agreements. But that may be a mistake, at least for U.S. SaaS copyright holders (and those in jurisdictions with similar

The Hidden Risk in AI Contracting: Losing the Deep Understanding Drafting Provides

August 17, 2026

AI contracting tools raise a problem I haven’t seen discussed. Obviously, AI content-creation demands humans in the loop, but if we humans don’t do the underlying drafting or report-writing or much of it – if the technology creates content for us – we may never understand the project well enough

No Specifications in Agile Contract’s SoW? Buyer, Beware. But, We Have Solutions.

July 13, 2026

Tech buyers often think they can’t have tight acceptance terms for projects with undefined deliverables. In agile software development and other exploratory projects, the parties don’t know what deliverables will do when they sign. So, the SoW can’t include specifications or acceptance tests … or so the argument goes. But