[License-discuss] License licenses

[James]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 7:30 PM Pamela Chestek <pamela at chesteklegal.com> wrote:
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> You would be assuming wrong. UIRC-GSA Holdings Inc. v. William Blair & Co., L.L.C., No. 15-CV-9518, 2017 WL 1163864, at *1 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 29, 2017) (bond offering documents copyrightable); Homeowner Options for Mass. Elders, Inc. v. Brookline Bancorp, Inc., 754 F. Supp. 2d 201, 209 (D. Mass. 2010) (mortgage forms copyrightable); Phoenix Renovation Corp. v. Rodriguez, 439 F. Supp. 2d 510, 516–17 (E.D. Va. 2006) (customer contract copyrightable); Am. Family Life Ins. Co. of Columbus v. Assurant, Inc., 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.
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> Pam

And some brilliant lawyers even create/store their licenses in git,
and specify a license as well. In this case CC0:

https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/blob/master/CC0

HTH
James

PS: Cheap plug: teaching lawyers git skills:
https://github.com/purpleidea/legal-hackers