Re: copyright notice on contract

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Bruce E. Hayden <bhayden[_at_]ieee.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Would that also apply if the firm that submitted the form of contract had a patent on it?

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