Who Owns the Copyright in Your Life Story? Nobody. There is, in my mind, a rebuttable presumption that earnest Hollywood movies are the equivalent of eating overcooked vegetables: you only watch them because they’re good for you, and most of the vitamins have been...
Four Seasons of Legal Pain If you are of a certain age, when you’re old enough to be living on your own but young enough to be content with renting rather than owning your abode, you start to get pressure from well-meaning older folks, like your parents, that you...
Different Similarities: What Does it Mean to Infringe Copyright? Earlier this week, Sam Smith1And when I say, “Sam Smith,” I really mean “Sam Smith, James Napier and William Phillips,” the writers of “Stay with Me.” settled with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne about a...
The Attack of the $1200-an-Hour Gorilla Someday, someone will have to explain to me what is so awesome about David Boies. He bills out at something like $1200 an hour, which ought to buy a lot of awesome. But there’s not much awesome about his strategy for suppressing...
RightsCorp Has Some High Hurdles to Clear Before it Even Gets to Repeat Infringers Typical. I read about a truly significant lawsuit, start blogging about what is obviously the main issue—an issue that has significance beyond the lawsuit—only to discover in analyzing...
