Non-GIP

[rivkat]

What is Scully thinking? Help me caption this, win valuable prizes.

Also, lots of nonfiction reviews.

(For those of you looking for fan stuff, I am writing. I've just been having trouble sitting down with any one story.)

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[ter369]

Tony Perrottet, Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists

This goes on my travel lit To Read list. It's not all Bill Bryson, doncha know; while Pico Iyer has become more of an essayist on cultural phenomemon.

The best travel lit I read this summer was Jason Webster's Duende: a journey into the heart of Flamenco. His focus is more cultural immersion, as he plunges into a post-grad life pursuing a role in Flamenco in Spain. I enjoyed it for his ability to describe the experience of playing or hearing music. I read many arts reviews that can't capture this as well as he does.

[teenygozer]

I'm not seein' the Scully picture, nor am I seeing a link to one!

[rivkat]

Whoops. Fixed.

[teenygozer]

Ah! Yes, ma'am; that's the patented Scully Moue of "When I find out who took my ovum, I'm gonna kick their butts."

Must now go put "The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination" and "Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists" on my Amazon wish list....

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Temple argues that, although copyright law protected men's private letters, as demonstrated by several contemporaneous lawsuits, the law didn't protect Macaulay's privacy because she was a woman. Now, what would you want to know to evaluate this claim? How about, did Macaulay sue anybody and lose, or did she decide not to sue?

What was the alleged date of the [male] copyright cases? Because I was under the impression that copyright only applied under the Statute of Anne and for a maximum of 14 years to works deposited at Stationers' Hall (ie copyright had to be claimed not arising automatically) throughout most if not all of the period referred to.

Furthermore, about the only cases I can think of where the court enforced a ban on circulating private papers was Prince Albert v. Strange (outside the period) but would, in my view, have been more likely to have been brought under equitable duties of confidence.

[rivkat]

I refuse to go back to that awful book, but I believe the law appealed to was common-law copyright, perpetual for unpublished works like private letters, so I don't think the Statute of Anne was needed.

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Well, I'd have to check the law of course, but "common-law copyright" sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms to me. Copyright in unpublished works was, under the 1911 Act and the 1956 Act certainly effectively perpetual in unpublished works (it became a term of 50 years from first publication) but I'd be interested to check the position prior to 1911.

[rivkat]

Isn't that the whole point of Donaldson v. Beckett and all those other cases, with the booksellers claiming the Statute of Anne didn't change the common law? At least that's the story we're told in books like L. Ray Patterson's Copyright in Historical Perspective.

[graysong]

What is Scully thinking? Help me caption this, win valuable prizes.

"Damn, I wore the pretty panties for nothing"

or maybe

"Handsome? Yes. Speedo? No."

[rivkat]

I think I like the Speedo one. And, by the way, great icon.

[graysong]

LOL - only a few young and fit gay porn stars can pull off the Speedo look!

And, by the way, great icon.

Thanks! I get so tired of those salespeople, and I'm on a no call list too!

[circelily]

Sounds like I need to look up The Mismeasure of Woman and catch up from there. Thanks for the rec.