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Is copying a legal document (e.g., contract) copyright infringement?

By nipper

Someone asked me…so I did some Google searching, finding this excellent blog post on the Adams Drafting blog:  The Contract Drafter as Copyright Violator. He mentions searching via the SEC’s EDGAR database, but I have a trick of the trade for doing just that: The SEC has an extensive collection of documents online…but they are horribly indexed and impossible to search effectively.  See:  http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar SECInfo.com has what they claim is “a searchable database of the most-sophisticated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR® database and Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) SEDAR® database service on the Web, with billions of links added to the SEC/CSA documents and exhibits to enable easier navigation…”  SECInfo...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).