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Ask HN: Borrowing TOC from a similiar service?

11 points by lumberjack 10y ago

Is this legal/wise as a temporary solution? I've read through it and amended it as required. It's fairly generic in itself.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Yeah people do it all the time, and I do it all the time. Check out https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic if you're concerned about copyrights. But really most people don't really care until you become large enough. Just make sure you follow common sense
tmaly 10y ago
I just used https://termsfeed.com/ https://termsfeed.com/ as suggested by someone. The cost was like $40 and I saved myself any potential headache. You just check off the boxes of what you need and fill in a few fields and you get a nice somewhat customized TOC for your site.
GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
If you have to ask "is this legal?" you should find someone who is able to answer questions like that, to wit, a lawyer.
singold 10y ago
I've used Wordpress'/Automattic's that are CC licensed Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ https://automattic.com/privacy/ TOS: https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ I had to modify them slightly for my use case but was pretty easy
SmellTheGlove 10y ago
Back when I was still practicing law, I was in-house with a large company. At the time, we were a small GC office - under 10 attorneys - for a really large organization. As a result, nearly all of us were generalists first with a little bit of specialization on the side. Given my background, that meant I did more or less anything tech-related. Anyhow, I now realize most of that buildup is unnecessary, but backspace takes time - I was reviewing a couple of our web TOS when I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I figured hey, we're not first to market with this thing, lemme go look at what Competitor X wrote. So I do that, and it bears striking similarity to ours. Actually, it's identical except someone CTRL-H'ed the company name. So just for shits, I went and looked at the other two big companies in our market. Identical, other than the company names of course. All of us. To this day, I have no idea who wrote it first. And I guess since I'm somewhere else doing fintech, I suppose I never will!

11 points by lumberjack 10y ago

Is this legal/wise as a temporary solution? I've read through it and amended it as required. It's fairly generic in itself.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago

Yeah people do it all the time, and I do it all the time. Check out https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic if you're concerned about copyrights. But really most people don't really care until you become large enough. Just make sure you follow common sense

tmaly 10y ago

I just used https://termsfeed.com/ https://termsfeed.com/ as suggested by someone. The cost was like $40 and I saved myself any potential headache. You just check off the boxes of what you need and fill in a few fields and you get a nice somewhat customized TOC for your site.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

If you have to ask "is this legal?" you should find someone who is able to answer questions like that, to wit, a lawyer.

singold 10y ago

I've used Wordpress'/Automattic's that are CC licensed Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ https://automattic.com/privacy/ TOS: https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ I had to modify them slightly for my use case but was pretty easy

SmellTheGlove 10y ago

Back when I was still practicing law, I was in-house with a large company. At the time, we were a small GC office - under 10 attorneys - for a really large organization. As a result, nearly all of us were generalists first with a little bit of specialization on the side. Given my background, that meant I did more or less anything tech-related. Anyhow, I now realize most of that buildup is unnecessary, but backspace takes time - I was reviewing a couple of our web TOS when I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I figured hey, we're not first to market with this thing, lemme go look at what Competitor X wrote. So I do that, and it bears striking similarity to ours. Actually, it's identical except someone CTRL-H'ed the company name. So just for shits, I went and looked at the other two big companies in our market. Identical, other than the company names of course. All of us. To this day, I have no idea who wrote it first. And I guess since I'm somewhere else doing fintech, I suppose I never will!