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Instructor: Todd Smithline Length: 30 minutes CLE: None Tools: Yes Roundtable: Yes
Description: In this first Episode in our Open Source Series, we introduce open source licenses, divide them into easily understood categories, teach you how to provide attribution and explain the importance of compliance.
Instructor: Todd Smithline Length: 1 hour CLE: None Tools: Yes Roundtable: Yes
Description: In this second Episode in our Open Source Series, we teach you how to create and implement an open source policy.
Description: In this third Episode in our Open Source Series, we identify the IP and legal risks of contributing or releasing open source and provide a three-question framework to help you evaluate contribution and release requests from your team.
Description: Indemnity is usually one of the most heavily negotiated provisions in enterprise software and SaaS agreements. As a vendor, how should you decide when and how to indemnify your customers? As a customer, what should you ask for and expect from the vendor?
Instructor: Derek Schwede Length: 30 minutes CLE: None Tools: Yes Roundtable: Yes
Description: Using the UCC and consumer protection laws as background, we explain how performance warranties work at law and discuss best practices for implementing warranties in software and SaaS agreements.
Instructor: Mark Webber and Todd Smithline (Host) Length: 42 minutes CLE: None Tools: Yes Roundtable: No
Description: What should a U.S.-based Software as a Service (SaaS) company know about the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Guest instructor Mark Webber provides a general overview of the GDPR, explains how it reaches U.S.-based companies, reviews its key principles and previews common compliance questions SaaS vendors should expect from their E.U.-based customers.
Instructor: Todd Smithline Length: 1 hour CLE: None Roundtable: Yes Created: 2/18
Description: In the last few years, two U.S. district courts found video game mechanics or “rules” to be protectable by copyright. A more recent district court started down the same path before reversing itself. So, are the rules of a video game now copyrightable?
Instructor: Derek Schwede Length: 30 minutes CLE: None Roundtable: Yes Created: 2/18
Description: Perhaps the two toughest challenges Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors face in negotiating legal terms with their enterprise customers are (1) persuading the customer to use the vendor’s (as opposed to the customer’s terms) and (2) limiting the scope of the vendor’s liability upon a data breach. In this Course, we provide legal background as well as step-by-step tips to help SaaS vendors navigate these two critical issues in their legal negotiations with enterprise customers.
Instructor: Sonali Maitra and Todd Smithline (Host) Length: 30 minutes CLE: None Roundtable: No Created: 12/17
Description: Does U.S. copyright law protect data or collections of data in databases? From reviewing fundamental copyright concepts to explaining core caselaw and offering hypotheticals, Guest Instructor Sonali Maitra provides a comprehensive answer.
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