About this course

Artificial intelligence contracts raise new concerns. They're software agreements and so call for terms many software contract managers and lawyers know well. But many AI systems raise unique issues, particularly generative AI and other forms of machine learning (ML). This course looks at those issues and explains the new terms they require.

This course is for contracting professionals serving AI customers, model vendors, and vendors of other software incorporating AI (a.k.a. implementors, distributors). Topics covered include:

  • IP and other rights in outputs and inputs
  • Use of outputs and inputs to train gen-AI
  • Warranties and indemnities about 3rd party IP, privacy, defamation, discrimination, and other harms
  • AI service level agreements (SLAs) and other terms about function and hallucination
  • New AI regulations
  • And more …

You can review a sample lesson right here.

As usual, 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, so you can refer back to the content as you work and incorporate it into your typical routines.

Length: c. 2 hrs. 5 mins. (CLE 2 hrs. See details below.)

Recorded March 2025

Curriculum


  Artificial Intelligence Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating
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We generate an individual certificate when you complete the course.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Credit is available!

  • California: Tech Contracts Academy is an approved 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.

Pricing

Your Instructor


David W. Tollen is one of the industry’s leading authorities on software contracts, including agreements about artificial intelligence, as well as SaaS and other forms of cloud computing. He is a sought-after speaker, and he’s been widely recognized for making complex topics easy to understand and engaging.


David is an attorney, the founder of Tech Contracts Academy, and the author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, a perennial bestseller from the American Bar Association. His experience includes teaching IT contracts at UC Berkeley Law School and work and testimony as an expert witness, as well as service as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company and as VP of Business Development for a tech startup. He began his career at Morrison & Foerster, a global law firm, and ultimately founded Sycamore Legal, PC, a boutique law firm focused on IT contracts. David's clients have ranged from Silicon Valley startups to some of the most influential companies in the world.

David graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley.


David's teaching style is informal and fun. He focuses on the business issues at stake in IT contracts.

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