Don’t grant a license to SaaS, AIaaS, or other cloud services

Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracts grant a “license” to the vendor’s software. So do a lot of other cloud services agreements – on offerings like PaaS and AIaaS (artificial intelligence as-a-service). That’s a mistake, at least in the U.S. and jurisdictions with similar copyright laws. Licenses authorize reproduction of on-premise software (generally). Customers don’t reproduce SaaS […]