Re: copyright notice on contract

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Robert Cumbow <rcumbow[_at_]grahamdunn.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 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?
>
> Companies that use a lot of contracts, and have over time developed
> boilerplate contracts that they rely on, are increasingly coming to
> regard those "form" agreements as proprietary to them and protectable
> as original works. T

I assume that this would mean that when I made a copy of the original for my files, I would volate the copyright law?

Hmmm... it does give one a thought as to how to respond to that next broad discovery request, doesn't it?

Regards,
John Lederer
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net> Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 23:12:14 GMT