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{{a|devil|[[File:Secret sauce.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]}}[[Legal eagle]]s ''love'' the idea that standard, [[boilerplate]], tedious terms that make up the lion’s share of commercial legal discourse should be regarded some sort of secret sauce — a spell; magick; a differentiating factor, and not as the common utility they actually should be. | {{a|devil|[[File:Secret sauce.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]}}[[Legal eagle]]s ''love'' the idea that standard, [[boilerplate]], tedious terms that make up the lion’s share of commercial legal discourse should be regarded some sort of secret sauce — a spell; magick; a differentiating factor, and not as the common utility they actually should be. | ||
It is a common enough instinct. ''Everyone'' — not just lawyers, come to think of it — likes to believe herself special, privy to something critical; dangerous; ''delicate'' — information that, should it fall into the wrong hands, may wreak great ill upon its owner or the poor unsuspecting random. | It is a common enough instinct. ''Everyone'' — not just lawyers, come to think of it — likes to believe herself special, privy to something critical; dangerous; ''delicate'' — information that, should it fall into the wrong hands, may wreak great ill upon its owner or the poor unsuspecting random. | ||
If we were to see the standard facilitating text by which our clients tether their fortunes to each other not as magic but as a free public resource this would ''not'' put battalions of [[legal eagle]]s out of work | |||
If we were to see the [[Boilerplate Anatomy|standard facilitating text]] by which our clients tether their fortunes to each other not as a kind of magic, but as a free, common, public ''resource'' this would ''not'' put battalions of [[legal eagle]]s out of work, which seems to be their operating assumption. | |||
Far from it: it would allow the legal eagles to take their building blocks as read, and concentrate on ''valuable'' work. | |||
[[OneNDA]] is a brave adventure along this road. Wonder where it will lead? | |||
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*[[Gizmo pelmanism]] | *[[Gizmo pelmanism]] | ||
*[[Intellectual property]] | *[[Intellectual property]] |