Do you have an event coming up that could benefit from a keynote speaker or panelist with deep information technology contracting expertise? Did you know
David Tollen was pleased to speak once again at PLI’s terrific annual event in San Francisco – Advanced Licensing Agreements. His panel’s topic: “Artificial Intelligence IP
Today, we continue exploring what happens when contracts end, either as planned or unexpectedly. Specifically, your contract receiving, or providing, critical cloud services: What does
Term and termination clauses (of one flavor or another) are common to information technology (and other) contracts. But they aren’t always understood – or remembered
Here’s the latest about cross-border transfers of personal data from the European Union and United Kingdom to the United States: In Europe: The European Union-U.S.
A little more than twenty years ago, the legal community began to recognize that nondisclosure terms don’t work for data protection. NDAs and nondisclosure provisions
This is what I call a “nuclear” indemnity: “Vendor shall indemnify Customer against any third party claim arising out of or related to Vendor’s breach
By David Tollen As prep for a recent live training, I created a series of prompts for use with gen-AI contracting systems. You feed them
California just passed the first law that … well, it’s complicated. On Sept. 29, 2025, Governor Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act
Late last month, California approved new regulations restricting automated decision-making –ADM – under the Californian Consumer Privacy Act. ADM refers to computer processing of personal
Gen-AI tools hallucinate, but that’s not their main problem when it comes to contracting. Rather, they reproduce errors typical of human contract-drafters (quite accurately, it
If you work with contracts regarding AI, you need to become familiar with the concept of “model distillation,” and the risks it creates for AI
I’ve repeatedly warned that you can’t really own data, since no form of IP offers ownership of information. (Trade secret law comes close but still
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
David Tollen was honored to have been invited to speak before multiple audiences in Taiwan the first week of June 2025. He addressed various information