| We'd recommend anything you can find re: 1) Contract law - if you're building software, make sure you understand how to licence it and not give away too much IP 2) Related to (1), understand Intellectual Property (IP) law - again, helps you understand what you own and what others own re the software or systems built 3) Tied to (1) and (2) increasingly, anything re data ownership and data privacy (incl. GDPR, an EU regulation re data privacy). Super important for anyone building tech that touches data, whether analytics, machine learning, deep learning, or any simple database backed product (i.e. most things). Perhaps as an aside, relevant advertising / marketing restrictions to make sure a product doesn't fall foul of any laws re what can / can't be claimed about a product. Naturally the laws are different in different countries / states, so make sure you anything you read relates to where you're doing business. A good tip is to google for law firm client alerts re these topics - law firms often produce free one or two pager guides summarising "all you need to know" basic info to encourage their services. These can be a good starting point. |