Updated Course Announcement – Top 6 Mistakes
Let’s face it – Contracts about information technology are complex, and often confusing. (“SaaS?” “Cloud?” “On-Premise Software?” “Artificial Intelligence?” “Gen-AI?” “SLAs?”) And small mistakes in your contracts can be costly. We can help. We’ve recently updated our popular on-demand course, Top 6 Mistakes in SaaS, AI, and Other Cloud Agreements. This short (appx. one hour) course will help you avoid […]
Comparing Gen-AI to the Brain Solves the Copyright Conundrum
Does generative AI really present a gaggle of copyright brainteasers? Or are the answers actually simple, based on old law?
Tech Contracts Offerings in September with David Tollen
Train with Tech Contracts Academy, and enhance your contracting skills. Next month, we offer a webinar, Top Six Mistakes in Cloud Services Agreements, Including SaaS and AI, and a Tech Contracts Master Class series. All taught by industry expert, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, David Tollen. Our classes are conveniently available via distance learning, with access to […]
5 Problems w/ Contracts for Generative AI & Other Machine Learning
Generative AI raises five sets of issues not often found in IT contracts. So do other machine learning (ML) systems, particularly those trained on massive datasets. The issues are complex, but no amount of analysis will help if you don’t notice them. So I’ve listed them below. For more information, see The Tech Contracts Master […]
Watermarks on Generative AI Art … and Copyright
I used AI to generate the image below. (I wanted new wallpaper for my laptop, but this was a bit more sci-fi than I had in mind.) Take a close look. You’ll see almost a dozen faint, diagonal lines of text. They look like watermarks. I’ve seen these faux watermarks on other images I created […]
Artificial Intelligence Contracts: An Issue-Spotter – Part 3 of 3
This is the third and last in our series of posts about contracts for purchase and sale of AI with a focus on gen-AI. Click here for the first post in the series and here for the second post. D. Errors in Outputs Errors in Outputs – Provider Disclaimers: Software vendors often warrant or otherwise […]
Training on Artificial Intelligence Contracts
During the past year, interest in AI has surged. So have questions about artificial intelligence contracts, particularly about the weird and complex issues raised by generative AI. As a result, we’ve emphasized generative and other AI issues in our programs, particularly the Tech Contracts Master Class™. AI is software, so mostly it raises the same […]
Artificial Intelligence Contracts: An Issue-Spotter – Part 2 of 3
This is the second of a three-post issue-spotter about contracts related to artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on gen-AI. Click here for the first of the series. B. Ownership and Control of Outputs General Problems with “Ownership” of Outputs: AI systems produce data as outputs, and ownership of data is problematic, as bullet 1 […]
Artificial Intelligence Contracts: An Issue-Spotter – Part 1 of 3
Contracts about artificial intelligence raise most of the same issues as other software agreements. But they raise unique issues too, particularly when they involve generative AI (like ChatGPT) and other forms of machine learning. This is the first of three posts describing those issues. This series provides an issue-spotter for lawyers, contract managers, and other contract-drafters. […]