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News Pick If Lawyers Sell Legal Expertise to Clients, Who Owns the Resulting Product?

Authored by: dio gratia on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 07:46 PM EDT

Notice the comments in Susan Hackett's column all focus on 'sweat-of-the-brow'
arguments.

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Neither

Authored by: artp on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 08:59 PM EDT

It's a work for hire. The client owns it.

Not really joking. It has little utility and no direct
applicability outside of the narrow case that it was written
for. Granted that an industry has sprung up to reuse these
writings in reapplication to other cases. But every case
seems to call for a new amalgam.

---
Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Neither - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 09:50 PM EDT
Neither - Authored by: dio gratia on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 10:19 PM EDT

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