The Tech Contracts Master Class #1: Prime Clauses – On-Demand Program Available for Enrollment

Master Class: Prime Clauses

Time for some professional development (including California CLE) to better understand and negotiate contracts for AI, SaaS, on-premise software, and other IT products and services? Our Tech Contracts Master Class™ series has four on-demand courses covering all the key terms in IT contracts. You can take all the courses in a series for a nearly 15% volume discount, or any combination of the four individually.

Today we highlight the first course in the series – Prime Clauses: License, Subscription, IP Transfer, Payment. This 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 …

Want to see a sample before you buy? Click here for Lesson 6 – Prime Clause in the Cloud.

Some notes about the course: 

  • Your instructor is David Tollen, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, attorney, UC Berkeley lecturer, expert witness, and sought-after speaker.
  • Enroll and receive access for 100 days.
  • Length: c. 1 hr. 51 mins.(CLE 1.75 hrs. See details below.)


Great program by one who is highly recognized not only as a subject matter expert but also one who is effective in organizing material in a way that is optimized for knowledge transfer to trainees.

– Previous Prime Clauses (Master Class #1) student



Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Credit is available.

  • California: Tech Contracts Academy is an approved CA 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 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, and each course’s sales page for its specific offering.

Some fine print: Tech Contracts Academy®, LLC is not a law firm, does not provide legal services, and its publications and courses are intended for general informational purposes only; they are not to be considered and do not provide legal advice. Course participation is subject to our Terms of Use, available on each course’s sales page for review prior to purchase. Course details are subject to change and may differ as between On-Demand and live courses.

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