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Fighting With Teenagers
Given that copyright law had roots in the piracy of sheet music, there's something appropriate about this e-mail exchange which musical composer Jason Robert Brown had with a teenager who was wanting to pirate sheets of his music.
Well worth a read...Justice
Oh dear. Dominick Dunne is Hovis. That great chronicler of Hollywood criminality and venality is gone.
For those of you who were fans of his acid pen, his first Vanity Fair article, about the trial of his daughter's killer, is here:http://www.vanityfair.com/You thought we wouldn't notice...
Here's an interesting story: how goth kiddy icon Emily the Strange was lifted from a children's story. Don't forget to scroll down and, at about 01 Dec 11:34pm, read design house head Rob Reger trying to kick one of the early artists under the bus, while not ceding one inch of ground on the IP ( Read more... )Legally Dead
From the Wall Street Journal law blog comes this:
For LB readers of a certain generation who cherish their bootleg recordings of Grateful Dead concerts, it’s time to light a candle for the passing of the lawyer who made them possible. Hal Kant, the longtime attorney for the famous hippie band, whose stationery was inscribed “legally dead,” now is ( Read more... )Fundamental Cases of the 20th Century
Alan Derschowitz's audio lecture series "Fundamental [American] Court Trials of the 20th Century" should probably be renamed "Fundamental Alan Derschowitz Court Trials of the 20th Century". To be fair, the trials he has been involved with, such as the O.J. Simpson case and Klaus von Bulow, certainly rank as media boondoggles of the first degree. ( Read more... )Court Briefs
The whole Tevez court case thingy is going to be an interesting affair. Having made the decision not to deduct points from Wham, I don't see the Premier League reversing their decision. If nothing else imagine the chaos that precedent would create. Writs would be flying every off-season ( Read more... )Couldn't happen to nicer people
For those of you following the SCO vs. IBM court case, Lewis Mettler suggests that SCO will never get to test its novel interpretation of the law that gives it control over all IBM derivative UNIX works in perpetuity. He reckons that Novell are about to pull the plug by forcing SCO into bankruptcy. Which is a little rough on the workforce but only ( Read more... )Jury Deliberations
While we wait for the jury in the Scooter Libby trial to come back. Here's a cool website, for the Jury Research Institute. These guys have even mocked up trials with realistic jury panels so they could monitor the jury deliberations. There are a couple of articles there worth reading that are probably as applicable to UK juries as US ones: