Friday, May 07, 2004
much fun:
parker update: somewhere below, may 2d, is a post on dorothy parker.
i wish i knew how to make permalinks.
howard reports a 2nd circ. decision about parker's copyrights.
short case brief: some guy researched and collected parker's uncollected poems and offered them to penguin, which stole them and published them, competing with guy's book cleverly called "not much fun."
court dissolved an injunction citing feist, that a mere collection is not copyrightable, andremanded for further consideration of some state law claims.
moral: use trade secrets; get a contract. of course, it's hard to negotiate the sale of a book when you haven't shown the book. but it's easy to write a cover letter with terms and conditions of offer.
moral: sometimes penguins are weasels.
parker update: somewhere below, may 2d, is a post on dorothy parker.
i wish i knew how to make permalinks.
howard reports a 2nd circ. decision about parker's copyrights.
short case brief: some guy researched and collected parker's uncollected poems and offered them to penguin, which stole them and published them, competing with guy's book cleverly called "not much fun."
court dissolved an injunction citing feist, that a mere collection is not copyrightable, andremanded for further consideration of some state law claims.
moral: use trade secrets; get a contract. of course, it's hard to negotiate the sale of a book when you haven't shown the book. but it's easy to write a cover letter with terms and conditions of offer.
moral: sometimes penguins are weasels.
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