-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Em Sáb, 2006-02-11 às 13:46 -0500, Nathanael Nerode escreveu: > > I have one single question... Does copyright law even applies to legal > agreements and license terms? I'm pretty sure noone can be sued for > using the terms someone used earlier, or even a modified version (as > long as one doesn't pretend the modified version is the original), or > even distributing it with some product... > IANAL .... *but* if you've ever seen those legal will kits and so on, they have a copyright on the text of the agreement. Also, having read the copyright info packages from the Canadian government (guess where I live :-), it is clear that a copyright applies to pretty much any work, and since a legal agreement is a document (work) it can be coprighted.
The law AFAIK makes no distinction between works made by lawyers and works made by other writers. I forget though who owns public court records (I think it's the gov't but I'm not at all sure of that; I do know there is a fee to obtain a copy, in any form). I do know that some shrink-wrap licenses have clauses regarding licensing of the license itself (generally just as restrictive as the rest of the license for to the software). Cheers, Daniel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD8UhueVDHer2Nu1QRArqVAJoDz8F+tXbUk6RGSGQaYwUmQchRbACdG8KJ ewbtUyKrchViPEdcaRD3C34= =j5Do -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
