"model contract" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a template of a contract that can be used as a guideline for creating a contract between two or more parties. For example: "We used a model contract to come up with the terms of our agreement."
Many will already have model contract clauses already drawn up.
Have I dreamt about having a model contract?
By then, the practice was fading anyway, thanks in part to an Authors Guild model contract banning unauthorized ads.
Examples include the use of model contract clauses approved by the European Commission, or transferring data to countries whose protection regimes are deemed 'adequate' by the EC.
Now that the 2000 agreement has been called invalid, American companies – including Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft – can no longer rely on self-certification and must seek to strike "model contract clauses" in each case.
Those companies will have to abide by the same systems as Facebook and Google, agreeing model contract clauses and ensuring that the service they are using, such as Amazon's web services, also complies with data protection regulations.
Model contracts making legal rights/obligations clear Data portability shouldn't be difficult, but most cloud service providers' (CSPs) contracts make it so.
The American Association of University Professors has drafted model contracts that give faculty members a financial interest in courses that are adapted to online presentations.
All data protection lawyers knew that model contracts were a shaky thing, but it was so far the easiest and quickest solution they came up with.
I see no way that the CJEU can say that model contracts are valid if they killed Safe Harbor based on the existence of these US surveillance laws.
The European Court of Justice invalidated Safe Harbor last October, following a legal challenge brought by European privacy campaigner Max Schrems, but the European Commission pointed companies to alternative transfer mechanisms they could use in the interim, such as standard contractual clauses and model contracts.
