Software As A Service Legal Issues. Software as a Service commonly referred to by the camel-back acronym SaaS is a rapidly growing trend in IT sourcing and along with Web 20 operators social networking sites and software virtualisation technologies is driving the continuing development of the web as the key IT platform in the early twenty-first century otherwise known as cloud computing. The key points to address are uptime service standards and related remedies and data security.
This new model makes legal software applications directly available to clients over the internet. Like other technology contracts SaaS contracts often employ a variety of contractual mechanisms to limit the SaaS technology providers liability. Software vendors have long relied upon resellers to market and sell traditional software licences.
Back in October 2012 I wrote this post on the different relationship models that may be used in software-as-a-service SaaS channel partner agreements.
The SaaS contract usually differs from a software licence because the. This means a resale licensee may mistakenly believe he has master resale rights. These issues can stem from simple problems such as. Software vendors have long relied upon resellers to market and sell traditional software licences.
