The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople

The Tech Contracts Handbook is a practical, user-friendly reference manual and training guide on cloud computing agreements, software licenses, and other IT contracts. It's a clause-by-clause "how to" resource, covering the issues at stake and offering negotiation tips and sample contract language.

The Handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople -- including contract managers, procurement officers, in-house and outside counsel, salespeople, and anyone else responsible for getting IT deals done. Perhaps, most important, it uses clear, simple English, like a good contract.

Topics covered include:

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions
• Software licensing (copyright licensing, etc.)
• Warranties and service level agreements (SLA's)
• Data security and privacy
• Indemnities
• Disaster recovery (DR)
• Non-competes
• Limitations of liability
• Clickwraps
• Open source software
• Nondisclosure agreements (NDA's) and confidentiality
• Technology escrow
• Internet and e-commerce contracts
• And much more ...

David W. Tollen is an attorney and author, and he teaches technology contracts at the U.C. Berkeley Law School. He's the founder of Tech Contracts Academy, which provides training on negotiating and drafting IT contracts, for lawyers and businesspeople. He's also the founder of Sycamore Legal, P.C. in San Francisco, where he represents buyers and sellers in cloud computing and software licensing agreements and in and other technology and IP transactions.

Mr. Tollen graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley. In addition to practicing law in the Silicon Valley, he has served as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company and as Vice President of Business Development for a profitable technology start-up.

On the side, Mr. Tollen writes novels that use fantasy to teach history and science, including the multiple-award-winner, The Jericho River.