We wrote ours and had a lawyer read over it.
Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
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#12I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name. One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.
Did you fulfill their request?
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#13I'm writing a TOS at the moment. Here's a question: has anyone ever heard of someone being sued for copyright violation for reusing parts of someone else's TOS or other posted legal document?
I have asked a lawyer this question. His response was:
As for copyright over similar disclaimers, we, as attorneys
have to use language that is acceptable as far as precedent
and current law is concerned, thus, language will often be
verbatim. Because of this there are no problems with
copyright as far as the terms of use are concerned. The
same principle is applied to real estate P&S contracts, as
well as construction contracts and the like.Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
#14wordpress.com's TOS is "available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use" . http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
I used the Automattic privacy policy as a starting place as well. I'm having my lawyer review my draft version, which will be a lot cheaper than having her write it from scratch.
If you'd like to find other CC licensed privacy policies, you can use this search:
http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=privacy%20policy
That will give you some other candidates.
Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
#15The EFF's Best Practices for Online Service Providers may be helpful:
https://www.eff.org/wp/osp
Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
#16I'm writing a TOS at the moment. Here's a question: has anyone ever heard of someone being sued for copyright violation for reusing parts of someone else's TOS or other posted legal document?
I have asked a lawyer this question. His response was: As for copyright over similar disclaimers, we, as attorneys have to use language that is acceptable as far as precedent and current law is concerned, thus, language will often be verbatim. Because of this there are no problems with copyright as far as the terms of use are concerned. The same principle is applied to real estate P&S contracts, as well as constructi…
Cool, thanks!!
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#17Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas.
A few of us are working on starting a non-profit to do that - taking the first small step of making an open UK employment contract.
Anyone with a business in the UK who might be interested in using such a contract, do get in touch!
callmeed, I'll email you to see if you'd like to join forces. Website T&Cs are definitely a good one to do.
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#18Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas.
A few of us are working on starting a non-profit to do that - taking the first small step of making an open UK employment contract.
Anyone with a business in the UK who might be interested in using such a contract, do get in touch!
callmeed, I'll email you to see if you'd like to join forces. Website T&Cs are definitely a good one to do.
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#19Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas.
A few of us are working on starting a non-profit to do that - taking the first small step of making an open UK employment contract.
Anyone with a business in the UK who might be interested in using such a contract, do get in touch!
callmeed, I'll email you to see if you'd like to join forces. Website T&Cs are definitely a good one to do.
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#20I searched for law firms that provided this service, looked at salient points of theirs, then rewrote them in my own words.