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Open counsel offers resources such as contracts, policies and terms of use free under open licenses. Some of these resources were seeded by our clients. Each seeded resource was developed explicitly for a client who has requested that the resource be available to others under an open license. You can use any of the open licensed resources in accordance with the license on that resource. All the licences require that you attribute your copy or remix of the resource; you must acknowledge the source of the resource, and include a URL.

Obviously offering a resource under an open license is not legal advice. The only relationship that using an open licensed resource creates is between licensor and licensee, a person who downloads a resource becomes a licensee.

• IP Provisions(odt)
• Open Resource Policy (odt)
• Terms and Conditions for a Website (odt)

Elsewhere on the WWW:

• Association of Progressive Communication Report on Fundamental Rights, and Global Copyright Legislative Best Practise for Access to Knowledge in South Africa, By Andrew Rens (October 2010, APC )(pdf)
• 'Collateral Damage: The Impact of ACTA and the Enforcement Agenda on the World's Poorest People' in Program in Information Justice and Intellectual Property Working Papers
• A Guide to CHOOSING AN OPEN LICENCE: The Peer 2 Peer University Experience 25 May 2010 (pdf)
• Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons, International Development Law Organization and Natural Justice, October 2009 (co-authored with Abrell, Bavikatte, Cocchiaro and Jonas)
• Access to Knowledge in South Africa Country ReportYale Internet and Society Research Access to Knowledge Research Series, 2009 (odt)
• Access to Knowledge in South Africa: Country Study Version 2.0 (2009) by Andrew Rens at al (ed)
• 'Implementing the WIPO Development Agenda: Treaty Provisions on Minimum Exceptions and Limitations for Education' in Implementing WIPO's Development Agenda (Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press/Centre for International Governance Innovation/International Development Research Centre, July 2009)
• ‘Managing Risk and Opportunity in Creative Commons Enterprises’ in First Monday, June 2006