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Originally Posted by noonereal
do you personally read all your own contracts?
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More on point, I do contracts at work. I look them over and find anything that's clearly not in the spirit of the deal I'm trying to make. Then I send them to lawyers. Congress members work similarly. They have a staff that reads all the fine print and create briefs for the members. I would think there's another similarity. I do the same knids of contracts over and over and they all have the same basic stuff in them. I do a lot of contacts for voice over artists and music libraries. They're pretty much the same. Even someone of my limited ability can pretty quickly narrow it down to the length of agreement, performance and sync rights, scope of use and cost. Takes me about 90 seconds to go through a four page contract.
I'd bet a lot of bills are similar. Same kind of clause that does pretty much the same thing. We whittle entire graphs down to a check on a sheet for approval. I'm sure their staff does something similar.