Digital Book Images and the Ultimate Portal
A less poetic, but no less interesting, take on the bookimaging battles heating up among Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon… Read More »Digital Book Images and the Ultimate Portal
Joe Miller
Open Casebooks, Part 839
For those who have followed the many recent posts in many places (e.g., Joe Liu at Co-Op here, Paul Horwitz… Read More »Open Casebooks, Part 839
This Is Boilerplate
Mike’s take on the flap between comedian-turned-novelist Chris Elliott and graphic novelist Paul Guinan confuses me a bit, and interests me a lot.
I agree that a novelist does not need to get an inventor’s permission to write about a publicly known machine. But is that what happened here? As I read the Times story, Elliott (or his aide) failed to see what I think is reasonably clear from the website about Boilerplate … namely, that it is fantasy creation, not a factual account of historical events. (It seems I disagree with Mike on this, so we would want to factor into the analysis that one risk of making a spoof is that some people take it to be true.)
Taken to an extreme, Mike’s analysis suggests tough sledding for a copyright claim in Woody Allen’s Zelig, and Christopher Guest’s This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show. And thereby hangs a tale …
Cert Grant Today
The Supreme Court granted review today in LabCorp v. Metabolite. The case turns on the scope of what processes are… Read More »Cert Grant Today
Judge Alito on Copyright
Yesterday, Larry Ribstein offered a fascinating analysis of numerous of Judge Samuel Alito’s opinions in business law cases. Dave Hoffman,… Read More »Judge Alito on Copyright