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Yes, legal documents have copyright. This also means you can't take shortcuts by copying an existing privacy policy or ToS instead of writing your own unless yo
by hnbad 3y ago
Yes, legal documents have copyright. This also means you can't take shortcuts by copying an existing privacy policy or ToS instead of writing your own unless you have their copyright holder's permission (which likely isn't even the person/company itself unless it was written by an in-house legal department). This also means you are likely violating copyright if you publish a contract you signed -- although you can of course summarize or rephrase it unless there is a valid NDA (most aren't).
So technically scraping and republishing old ToS'es would be a copyright violation. You might have a case for fair use but then it becomes difficult to monetize the service.