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You would be assuming wrong. <i>UIRC-GSA Holdings Inc. v. William
Blair & Co., L.L.C.</i>, No. 15-CV-9518, 2017 WL 1163864, at
*1 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 29, 2017) (bond offering documents
copyrightable); <i>Homeowner Options for Mass. Elders, Inc. v.
Brookline Bancorp, Inc.</i>, 754 F. Supp. 2d 201, 209 (D. Mass.
2010) (mortgage forms copyrightable); <i>Phoenix Renovation Corp.
v. Rodriguez</i>, 439 F. Supp. 2d 510, 516–17 (E.D. Va. 2006)
(customer contract copyrightable); <i>Am. Family Life Ins. Co. of
Columbus v. Assurant, Inc.</i>, No. 1:05-CV-1462-BBM, 2006 WL
4017651, at *6–8 (N.D. Ga. Jan. 11, 2006) (insurance policies
copyrightable). To those of us who write them, they are as creative
as code. <br>
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Pam<br>
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On 5/31/2019 6:51 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">License texts are functional, and I would have
assumed that they are not subject to copyright. No doubt we have
cases from boilerplate form producers as precedent.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 31, 2019, 13:45
Smith, McCoy <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com"
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>>Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:08 AM<br>
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>>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] License licenses<br>
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>>For example, for the MIT license:<br>
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>>(1) No submitter -- the MIT license was grandfathered
in by the original OSI board<br>
>>(2) No nominal copyright owner<br>
>>(3) Despite its name, MIT does not appear to have
authored the MIT license, based on the historical research
I've done -- somewhat important because in later times I
believe the MIT tech transfer office itself assumed -- based
on the name popularized by the OSI itself -- that it had
authored the MIT license, and also more recently some of the
members of the "open source licenses can be copyright only"
camp wish to argue that the MIT license should be read as a
"copyright only" license because the present-day MIT tech
transfer office supposedly takes that view. MIT is not the
license steward of the MIT license -- there is no license
steward -- which is separate from but closely related to the
authorship and copyright ownership issue.<br>
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Here's some MIT license archeology: <a
href="https://opensource.com/article/19/4/history-mit-license"
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://opensource.com/article/19/4/history-mit-license</a><br>
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Be interesting to see one on BSD too, although I didn't see a
similar one using some quick web inquiries.<br>
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