While technically copyright infringement, boilerplate legal text is routinely copied, even by lawyers. This court case (AFLAC v. Assurant, et al.) drew a bit o

While technically copyright infringement, boilerplate legal text is routinely copied, even by lawyers. This court case (AFLAC v. Assurant, et al.) drew a bit of a line in the sand about what's OK and what isn't: http://danashultz.com/blog/2009/11/20/can-i-create-my-standard-form-contract-by-starting-with-someone-elses/ http://danashultz.com/blog/2009/11/20/can-i-create-my-standa... "The moral: There is not likely to be a problem if you copy routine legal or business terms, but if you copy unique provisions that are important to another company’s business, you might find yourself on the short end of a copyright infringement lawsuit." When putting together our T&C, etc, our lawyer suggested we browse around and copy clauses we liked from the big guys and put it together into some semblance of what we want, then he would review it. Saves lots of legal expense compared with getting him to do all the work, and cost us almost no extra time as we would have needed to dictate to him what we wanted anyway.