By Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal. Advocate, Bar Council of India. LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore. Master of Business Laws. Quick answer: Agentic AI as a service (you will also see GaaS, AgaaS and AaaS) sells outcomes, not software access. The contract has to change with it. You define what the agent may do, price what […]
Category Archives: AI & Technology Law
TL;DR: When an autonomous AI agent causes harm, no jurisdiction lets the AI itself be liable, because it is not a legal person. Responsibility falls on the humans and companies around it: usually the deployer (the business that put the agent to work), and sometimes the developer or vendor, depending on what went wrong and […]
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Mar
Mar
TL;DR: SaaS startups need a core stack of legal documents to operate safely and scale confidently. These include Terms of Service, a Privacy Policy, a SaaS Subscription Agreement, an End User Licence Agreement (EULA), a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), an NDA, an IP Assignment Agreement, and founder or employment agreements. Each document protects a different […]
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Mar
Mar
TL;DR: An API licensing agreement governs the terms under which one party, the API provider, grants another, the API consumer, permission to access and use its application programming interface. It looks similar to a traditional software licence on the surface but functions very differently: you’re licensing ongoing access to a live, changeable service, not a […]
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Feb
Feb
Whether you are a foreign company opening your first office in India, hiring your first Indian employee remotely, or an established company in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurugram, or Mumbai reviewing your existing contracts, the same question comes up: how should compensation actually be structured to be compliant right now, not under the rules that applied a […]
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Sep
Sep
TL;DR: A contract lawyer who has never worked on an AI or technology deal can still draft a competent, enforceable agreement, but competent is not the same as adequate here. AI and tech contracts raise a specific set of questions, who owns AI training data and outputs, who is liable when an algorithm makes a […]
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Sep
Sep
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the talk of the town across every industry. From AI in law for drafting contracts to AI-powered medical diagnostics, people are rushing to test its capabilities. At first glance, AI appears to be a blessing – fast, cheap, and always available. However, here’s the critical truth about AI risks: AI […]
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Aug
Aug
TL;DR: Every contract is an agreement, but not every agreement is a contract. An agreement is simply two or more people saying yes to the same thing. It becomes a contract only when it is legally enforceable, which generally requires an offer, acceptance, something of value exchanged, capable parties, a lawful purpose, and a genuine […]
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Aug
Aug
Too many founders talk about AI “agents” as if they’re independent operators running around making decisions. They’re not.AI Agents Won’t Take the Blame, You Will: Why Founders Need to Wake Up to AI Liability Sure, AI Agents might book meetings, post on LinkedIn, complete transactions, or even negotiate deals without anyone lifting a finger. But […]
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Jul
Jul
TL;DR: A business uses an AI tool to draft a document, answer a customer query, or generate content, and the output turns out to be wrong, defamatory, or infringing, and now someone has suffered a loss. The instinctive assumption is that the AI company is responsible, since it built the tool. In practice, the business […]
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