Congress will soon begin considering laws to extend copyright protection to make it even more broad and intrusive than it is now. One of the major backers is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) an organization which should strike fear into your heart if you know anything about the current state of intellectual property law. They're the Evil Empire of … [Read more...] about Copyright Hell
Photo Clearance: More Random Stuff
Here are a few more photos from my Z3 backlog. … [Read more...] about Photo Clearance: More Random Stuff
Economics of Public Interest Law Schooling
Blonde Justice is giving advice to prospective law students on finding good public interest law schools: I'm certainly not saying you can't go to Stanford, Yale, or Harvard and work in public interest. You can, and people do. I'm sure that there's not a law school in the country that hasn't produced at least one public interest lawyer, or that wouldn't tell you on your tour … [Read more...] about Economics of Public Interest Law Schooling
Damn, I Thought Those Two Crazy Kids Had a Chance
Just saw this: Eminem's dysfunctional relationship with wife Kim has hit another low -- he has filed divorce papers, less than three months after remarrying her. "There has been a breakdown in the marriage relationship to the extent that the objects of matrimony have been destroyed and there remains no reasonable likelihood that the marriage can be preserved," according to … [Read more...] about Damn, I Thought Those Two Crazy Kids Had a Chance
Guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun I recently ran across the above lyric somewhere on the web that I can no longer remember. You might think, as I did, that it sounds like a piece of gangsta rap about some gangbanger deciding between surrendering to the police or trying to shoot it out. In other … [Read more...] about Guns of Brixton