Short Quips: June 29, 2009
It’s been a week in since starting this doc review project and my brain is overflowing with the odds and ends of X Corporation. 55 hours later, the first week is done and it looks like we’ll actually finish this project on time provided we don’t have any more surprises from hiring counsel. In the meantime:
- There are long and protracted probates, and then there’s what’s likely to come out of Michael Jackson’s estate. Jackson’s Death Puts Lucrative Beatles Copyrights In Play. [Wired]
- Interesting enough since I myself took a minor burn from spilled hot tea this morning, at least we won’t be banning such beverages due to toddlers invading our doc review pods: Pensioners’ coffee morning banned for health and safety reasons. [Telegraph via [Overlawyered]
- My law school professors lavished praise on Posner (after all, he is from the local Circuit) but I’m going to join in the shaking of heads on this one with respect to his apparently-serious ideas on copyright in the digital age since this very link would be illegal under his regime. Someone remind him that copyright begins at the moment the work is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Bar “linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials?” [Overlawyered]
- And we all thought the CPSIA stopped at products intended for children under the age of 12: Product safety law imposes major burdens on auto suppliers. [via Overlawyered]
- Back in the joyous days of Legal Writing, I was taught that some poor soul has to end up reading my briefs – the shorter and easier to understand, the better. Either this was one monster case or someone got a bit carried away down under. Australian prosecutors’ brief: 24,736 pages. [via Overlawyered]
- Obviously my law school (Chicago-Kent) wasn’t in on this or otherwise I’d be happily employed right now. U. of I. jobs-for-entry scheme [Chicago Tribune]
- There are just some things we can’t make up that show up on dockets: San Fransisco Docket (June 2009) [Lowering The Bar]
- It was only a matter of time before the widow of the fly President Obama swatted down would secure representation: Widow of Murdered Fly Seeks White House Apology
- I can only hope that most of my compatriots buried under law school debt don’t resort to sleeping in trash cans (unless as a result of superior alcohol consumption): Indiana lawyer found asleep in trash can
- I’ll take a volunteer rescue organization over it being sued out of existence for failure to promptly rescue because of my lack of sense to stay by my own SOS signs. This Is Why We Cannot Have Nice Things [Popehat]
