Copyright Question

[toekramp]

if you were to start a website that was similiar in practice to another website, could you take their privacy policy and what not and copy and paste? basically my question is, if a lawyer has already hammered out the details of the legal questions in this practice, is it illegal to use them for yourself.

 

[toekramp]

TTT

 

[nageov3t]

no.

 

[Train]

perfectly fine, IMO, just change a few words, make sure it doesnt have any of thier tradenames in it, or anything that would be specific to the site you copied it from.

I work with several ad agencies that require a privacy policy, they encourage thier members to copy off someone who has a good one, and even provide links to them.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

god help you if actually have to go to court.

 

[Train]

besides, the lawyer who wrote that one just copied it off someone else, who probably copied it from someone else... etc.

You dont have to go to law school to be able to cut and paste

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Train
perfectly fine, IMO, just change a few words, make sure it doesnt have any of thier tradenames in it, or anything that would be specific to the site you copied it from.

I work with several ad agencies that require a privacy policy, they encourage thier members to copy off someone who has a good one, and even provide links to them.

thanks dude

 

[n0cmonkey]

Have your lawyer look it over though.

 

[DnetMHZ]

What if the lawyer who wrote it is a dipsh!t?

 

[Train]

jeeze guys, its a website privacy policy not a billion dollar contract, cant really go wrong with one of these things.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
god help you if actually have to go to court.

Legalese is all the same?

 

[nageov3t]

doesn't the lawyer who wrote the document have a right to protect his intellectual property? you're blatently plagurizing and stealing from the original author. I don't see how this could be different than any other form of IP theft.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: loki8481
doesn't the lawyer who wrote the document have a right to protect his intellectual property? you're blatently plagurizing and stealing from the original author. I don't see how this could be different than any other form of IP theft.

Only to the extent that that lawyer that created what you are c/p'ing doesn't have some novel or unique language contained within.
Most "boilerplate" legalese has been rendered public domain , simply because of the mass distribution.
Were you to copy from a textbook , there might be copyright issues, but most boilerplate language is safe.