By Jennifer L. Sheridan, Esq. In the last post, I introduced BizConnect, a hypothetical startup software company, who is concerned about privacy law compliance. BizConnect is in discussion with several prospective... read more →
By Jennifer L. Sheridan, Esq. Last month, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the U.S. Senate and House about his company’s data privacy practices. A whistleblower had revealed... read more →
By David W. Tollen Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracts grant a "license" to use the vendor's software. That's a mistake. Licenses are for on-premise software. SaaS is a service, as the... read more →
CIO.com recently published an article by our founder, David Tollen. Please click here.
This is the fifth in a series of five posts on Open Source in Software Procurement. Click here for the prior post, and click here for the intro, which lists... read more →
This is the second of five posts in a series called Open Source in Software Procurement. Click here for the first/introductory post. Open source software is software licensed (a) with... read more →
by David W. Tollen Contract drafters rarely understand open source software (OSS). They see it as a threat, so when they're buying software, they try to exclude OSS from their... read more →
On October 11, I’ll be moderating a panel-webinar for lawyers, provided by the American Bar Association. It's called What You Need to Know: Threats Your Technology Poses to Confidentiality and Attorney-Client... read more →
A South Carolina Law Review article cites The Tech Contracts Handbook -- and in fact relies upon it heavily. The article is THE UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE LOOKS AT DATA BREACH CONTRACT CLAUSES:... read more →
by David W. Tollen and Nathan Leong You’re a lawyer looking for online software and other tools to run your firm—tools like email, word processing, calendaring, timenotes, legal research, and... read more →
By Phil Brown and David W. Tollen Lawyers love tradition, but many clients want to communicate with 21st Century tools. Texting, Skyping, SnapChatting: all of these would mystified most lawyers... read more →
We’ve posted a new contract in the forms library — and it’s available in MS Word (no charge, as always). It's meant to serve as a customer's primary contract for... read more →
Capterra's IT Management Blog just published an article by David Tollen: 5 Simple Rules for Negotiating Software and IT Contracts. It's a customer-focused articles, addressing five mistakes customers tend to... read more →
Hours ago, EU and U.S. negotiators agreed on a new framework for data sharing across the Atlantic. It's called the "EU-US Privacy Shield." Cutting to the chase, we should soon... read more →
Managing and sharing big data creates technical challenges unlike anything found in traditional data-sharing relationships. But big data contracts don’t involve a whole new field of legal knowledge. If you’ve... read more →
Here's a good post on transfers of European private data to U.S. computers (from BakerHostetler). Of course, it's in response to the October 6 decision by the E.U.'s Court of... read more →
Most IT contract drafters know the difference between a software license agreement and a technology services contract. In a license, the customer gets rights to copy and use software, while... read more →
When one party has to protect information belonging to the other, we tend to pull out a nondisclosure agreement: an NDA. Or if we don't want a separate NDA, we... read more →
