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Software developers and suppliers of cloud computing are tasked with balancing their regulatory compliance duties whilst simultaneously managing contractual risk with their customers.
Developers must ensure they meet their deliverables and requirements, both in the contractual and regulatory sense, so that the value of their skills and services are preserved in a rapidly developing industry.
We can support you on the legals affecting whatever solution is required, from artificial intelligence programmes to smartphone applications. Our lawyers have a key understanding of the software and tech industry, having advised various developers on their contractual arrangements.
How do we support Software and Cloud Developers?
We can provide legal support on the following matters: -
Drafting and negotiating software development agreements on various methodologies (agile, waterfall, or hybrid).
Drafting and negotiating SaaS, PaaS, IaaS agreements.
Drafting and negotiating value added reseller agreements for intermediary providers.
Drafting and negotiating Service Level Agreements (SLAs), advising on exemptions, multiple operations, and layered SLAs.
Concomitant advice on the UK GDPR for any personal data processing activities, including Data Processing Agreements.
Advice on intellectual property in relation to software licensing, including restrictive and permissive open source licensing, API licenses, database rights, decompilation rights, and source code escrow.
Advice on arrangements whereby the provision of digital content will be made to onward end-users.
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