Re: copyright in legal documents

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Mike Phillips <radiolawyer[_at_]hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> A new client asked me a question this morning that has been asked
> many times, but I've never had to answer it before. (It's an academic
> question.)
>
> When a client pays an attorney to draft a contract, who owns the
> copyright to the contract?

Isn't the real question whether the solicitor could ever untangle which bits of the contract are his, and which came from this precedent and which from another.

Could any lawyer give good title to any of his contracts?

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