If you want to build actual viable products to market and influence dreaming and creation, a legal bounty is required. I know there are issues with this particular bounty set-up based on OpenGov bounty audit and may need to be replaced by another? 
All corporations have Legal Counsel and other Operational working teams on call that look out for the interests of the company. In Polkadot and Kusama’s case we need legal counsel for the right to build and distribute. For those who form a team an operation agreement may be warranted to keep them on track or in agreement. If you have a product offering, going to market will require in most jurisdictions, Terms and Conditions within the application and/or licensing your product. If your product is integrated into a corporate owned product, both representation, negotiation and contracts for distribution or licensing are needed. 
I am missing a few additional scenarios, however, if we desire dreamers to build with us and be motivated to use their skills, having legal counsel available for any reason at their disposal is a much-needed requirement. In addition, there may also be instances of opposing technologies where council may also be needed, even if I hope this never happens. 


[@HopeClary](16fUfF5mqL3cGGL3ai1CTL45UyNVTBHcbMkmuh5Va5M2yJ5p-polkadot) Based on the current demand all legal requirements can be simply directed by said efforts and not a wide reactive, non-specific bounty which is largely inoperative. As of now, all projects have done it independently. 

Thanks for opening this discussion. We're happy to address these concerns below. While the start has been slower than we had hoped, the bounty is active - but due to the retroactive nature of payments (as set out in the original proposal), no child bounties have been paid out yet.

Activity to date:
- We set up a full Discord automation that enables and maintains client-attorney privilege.
- We’ve been working with teams on specific matters and preparing a first batch of reusable templates (e.g., standard contract clauses). These will be published together rather than piecemeal to avoid confusion and ensure quality.
- We’ve also launched an easy entry point for questions on company and trademark rights, with the option to book a short call on IP strategy. This channel exists today but hasn’t been broadly advertised yet.

What’s next (near-term):
- Within the next few weeks we’ll post a public activity report and release the first template set.
- We will also publish a projected depletion timeline to provide better transparency.

We aim for open and low-friction participation. Everyone is welcome to bring an issue to the Legal Bounty - onboarding is free and does not entail any obligations. Our setup ensures that conversations remain privileged and fully private. We're also open to feedback and wishes from the community, such as inputs on which templates or topics to prioritize.

We realize that communication has been lackluster. We plan to change that, with a full rundown and report coming by the end of this year. That will let the community evaluate actual outputs and costs, and allow us to highlight the efficiency of the setup compared to standard lawyer rates across the globe.

Poll:
https://voting.opensquare.io/space/polkadot/proposal/QmSyXeE1tHGaGJfjzu9iwtUQRbpdHTUbqKwpXKKDEWAvss

It seems like this bounty doesn't have neither proactive activity nor reactive activity as there are no child bounties granted.

https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/62

This bounty was meant to be reactive to provide for legal support and other technical efforts but in 8 months it's had no activity. We would like to hear if there are parties interested in the funds of this bounty because as of now all active legal efforts don't depend on it as they are working in parallel and with more specific goals as well as more specific projects often, in house or directly hired. Otherwise, we'd like to hear if there are grounds for closing this bounty due to inactivity and lack of impact. 

Moreover, now bounties are required to provide a timeline for depletion of funds, plans for funding among other things, something this bounty doesn't comply with. 

A poll is included on this discussion, Voting AYE means closing the bounty NAY, means leaving it active but more than anything, we would like to hear the reasons why this bounty should or shouldn't be closed.

Let's kickstart the discussion.

Closing Bounty 62. Polkadot Legal Bounty.