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Give me my Google Click-Throughs

Proposed addition to Google's business and personal productivity hubs: provide users with a Web-enabled way to orchestrate and manage simple legal transactions.
Written by Denise Howell, Inactive

Did you see that Michael Geoghegan and Gigavox Media have put out a WordPress plugin that helps streamline the process of obtaining release agreements from podcast guests?  The plugin automates the creation of a click-through agreement.  Here's an example; no legalese included.  (In other words, they're giving folks the rope; hanging optional.) 

It seems to me something like this would be a great Google Apps addition.  People frequently proceed on handshake understandings (or less), even when something important is on the line, because the process of entering into a sufficiently definite and enforceable agreement is too cumbersome and slow to be tolerated in today's world.  (See, or hear rather, Rob Welch's interview with Colette Vogele.)  But:  what if there were a widely available, cheap/free tool that helped users create and manage click-through agreements?  And what if all the usual associated paperwork and recordkeeping worked instead like Google Docs and Spreadsheets?  We'd be a leap closer to the sort of network-leveraging legal infrastructure that hums along beneath the action in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe.

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