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Re:Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service ... by gburt on Sunday August 21, 2011 @10:44PM (#2911072)
Remember that the lawyer in question is not your lawyer. You probably shouldn't take the above (or, in fact, the below - nothing I say is legal advice, nothing in this thread is legal advice) as legal advice.

I am definitely not a lawyer, but that lawyer's response sounds reasonable, but it sounds like it was also likely under a range of conditions -- in particular, I think if you ever get in a position where you have a bit of a "special" contract (i.e., anything unusual in the broad sense of the term) copyright could very well apply.

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Re:Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service ... by ScottBurson on Monday August 22, 2011 @02:14AM (#2911538)
Oh, I understand. I'm not duplicating large swaths of text wholesale. Most of it I'm writing fresh -- so given the above, it really sounds like I don't have to worry about borrowing a few phrases here and there.
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