Re: copyright notice on contract

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Mark Lemley <mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> On 08/24/1999, 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?
>
> Perhaps you should send them a completely different draft, along with a
> note saying you would have liked to adopt their terms, but were afraid
> of infringing the copyright if you did so ... :~)

I would think that there would be an implied license to create a derivative work when a copyright marked contract is submitted for negotiations.

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