Re: copyright notice on contract

From: Kerry L. Konrad <k_konrad[_at_]stblaw.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:06:32 -0500 (EST)

On 8/24/99, Dana Bostrom <bostrom[_at_]u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> I received a contract to review that had a copyright notice. None of
> my colleagues had ever seen this before. Any ideas on why it would be
> included?

A few years ago one of the leading M&A firms in New York started putting a copyright notice on some of their deal documents in an attempt, it seemed, to claim a proprietary interest in certain unusual deal structures expressed in those documents. It caused a bit of comment but was generally ignored in practice, and I'm not aware of any efforts made to enforce the claimed copyright.

Kerry L. Konrad
<k_konrad[_at_]stblaw.com> Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 17:04:16 GMT

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