It is no secret that legal training is often analytical and systematic, but rarely is the legal drafter thinking about the scientific process of refining an overview into detailed specifications. Wu Group’s habit of dissecting research into standalone observations and summarizing them on its website allows us to structure our legal drafting process in the same way. For example, a scientific overview can be condensed into a comprehensive licensing framework.
At its core, Wu Group is a website that outlines the science behind all the legal nuances of a video license agreement template. In recent articles such as The Vital Components of a Video License Agreement Template, the basic structure of the agreement template is explained: the initial scope of the license followed by the specifics of the license, then the termination clauses, and all the way to the more technical aspects like assigning costs of damages.
The article is actually a great example of how scientific methodology and foresight is useful to lawyers when drafting a video license agreement template. The scientific process is always to break down a theory or hypothesis into its basic elements before one can verify those aspects. Breaking the process down into stages also allows a lawyer to save time and focus on the legal details and remove the generalities.
Anyone visiting Wu Group’s website will find that there is overlap between many scientific disciplines and law. Even neurolinguistic programming has a slight mention in the last article, which is a process of understanding interpersonal language.
Law is sometimes thought of as a strict and over-regulated discipline, but there is almost no field of study that can exist without a legal framework. All disciplines of science can therefore discuss the legal consequences of their findings. For example, the scientific research of DNA and genetic composition nowadays both has romantic and legal connotations due to the very fact that there are legal contradictions from multiple perspectives.
Templates are arguably the best way of bridging complex theoretical notions with the practical application of a legal theory. A video license agreement template is just an example of how templates can be used for practical purposes in the world to demonstrate our understanding in a specific field.
However, as already mentioned earlier, it is easy to lose your structure and forget a few important nuances in the drafting process of any document. Sometimes more detailed templates are available for practical use, and these can come in formats such as checklists or step-by-step guides. These documents are a good way to ensure that no important aspects are left out of the process and references can be checked off on the list as they are confirmed.
Even if a normal video license agreement template is completed with all the necessary steps, there is always the chance that the basic aspects of the template cannot be allocated properly. For example, it would be a 50% chance that the specific license can be found in China, and a 50% chance that the specific license is centered around another jurisdiction like the US.
Sometimes the overlap can be more than that and the basis of the licensing can be difficult to determine. For example, if the terminology of the document centers around software licensing, it is possible that at some point hardware and software licensing are both covered in the same document.
A video license agreement template is not too different to a standard contract or agreement. Things like termination, damages, transfer or assignment, and any other relevant details are all fundamentally the same. However, it requires significant effort to verify that the right provisions are included in the document and legal standardization of practices can only be ensured through scientific diligence and approach.
Even background research can be done in an academic manner to reinforce such efforts. Research should delve into the matter at hand and by removing personal preferences and focusing on the facts presented, lawyers can apply the scientific methodology to their document coverage efforts.