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Here’s a question I get from time to time:

I need some contracts to use in my photography business. May I copy the language of agreements I find on the Internet or from friends?
Under Section 102 of the Copyright Act, copyright protection “subsists . . in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium [...]

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