Drafting
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A Legal Rule That Makes Writing Worse
moving past the fantasy of consistency
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Wikimedia’s Terms of Use
thoughts from a recent review
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The Law Does Not Require Legalese
a reassuring dive into contract interpretation
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Square One 2e1u
addressing an interesting Utah peculiarity
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Square One Second Edition
improved US hiring forms and terms
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Templating for Lawyers
learn computer templateering in five minutes flat
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Square One
fair terms. free forms. back to work.
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Work Made for Hire … or Not
one source of complexity in intellectual property terms
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Doormat 1e
free no-log, no-track privacy policy
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Turnstile 1e
first edition and new website
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Acceptable Use
different delivery, same rules
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DMSimple
plain and simple DMCA safe harbor terms
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Turnstile
springboard website terms of service
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Progressive Standardization
standardized contracting can also be flexible
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Springboard Agreements
putting a name to a tool
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Name this Contract Type
agreements incorporating all their terms by reference
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redline.commonform.org
compare Common Form markup online
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edit.commonform.org
try Common Form’s editing tools online
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Common Form, Simplified
publish, share, save our souls
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Intelligent Perception
low bow to the legal laity
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Correct and Intuitive Fairness
How can a license say what “fair” is ahead of time?
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Reading the WeAllJS Code of Conduct
line-by-line and off-the-cuff
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AFL-3.0 versus OSL-3.0
a redline (diff) with important network terms highlighted
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The Discipline of Stated Purpose
write out the purposes of legal terms in contracts
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Unhappy Coincidences
marriages of licensing convenience, and changed circumstances
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Six Great Deals Books
read these books
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Transparent Contract Components
sharper tools, finer toolmarks
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MPL-2.0 versus OPL-2.1
a redline (diff) showing changes
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Lexical Scope for Contracts
wandering ever closer to LISP
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Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité versus - Réciprocité forte
a redline (diff) showing changes
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Contract Components
fine-grained means of abstraction in legal drafting
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First Read: The Fair Source License
Text and my first thoughts on a new, non-open source form license
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Named Provisions
If contract section numbers are just another namespace, can they be replaced with defined terms?