PING: The Contract Drafter as Copyright ViolatorURL: http://adamsdrafting.com/system/?p=28IP: 72.51.38.136BLOG NAME: AdamsDraftingDATE: 06/01/2006 04:55:45 AMA forthcoming Missouri Law Review article by Davida Isaacs—it was featured in a recent item on the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog—discusses whether one could bring a claim for copyright infringement based on unauthorized copying of litigation doc…
Lawyers are used to treating boilerplate as a kind of public good, swiping good language from agreements whenever they can. But they may not want to be quite so free. That’s the lesson of a recent decision discussed in Insurer’s Use of Narrative Policy Language From Another Insurer’s Policies Held to be Copyright Infringement, by Martin J. Bishop of Foley Lardner LLP in Chicago. The title is self-explanatory.
[Frank Snyder]
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