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Abugadu posted:If the film quality were too crappy, though, or the film was altered, the licensor may have an action against the airline (see, e.g., Monty Python successfully suing CBS (I think) for the heavily-altered-and-no-longer-funny US versions of their Flying Circuses). ABC, and that part was decided under trademark, not copyright.
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Abugadu posted:The Lanham Act/moral rights stuff at the end was not the holding of the case, even though it was what made the case famous. I don't think "lovely rip" constitutes editing per Gilliam.
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Solomon Grundy posted:Fellow lawyers, I am hoping that one of you hip internet guys knows the answer to this so I don't have to research it myself. I am old and technology frightens and confuses me. false light tort if your jurisdiction recognizes it
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srsly posted:If by "evidence against him" you mean "admissible at trial," to get this admitted at trial the prosecutor would have to identify and subpoena Aafter, and make Aafter come testify. And then somehow make it not hearsay.
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I almost went to UF Law, and I thought it was just common to submit your bar app your 1L year.
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grnberet2b posted:Austin, TX Out of curiosity, has she spoken to the rental agency regarding whether they'll pay for the ticket?
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Can DC even enforce a Virginia inspection sticker issue (assuming this is the safety inspection yellow sticker on the windshield)?
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Arch Stanton posted:Some cops thought I was stealing stuff. They cuffed me, searched me, asked me a few questions while they ran my record, decided I wasn't a thief but cited me for trespassing, and sent me on my way. Most likely, but what's the context of the question?
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Is a municipal code (Pacifica, California) under copyright? The publication of the code is contracted out to an exclusive publisher (municode.com) and I understand that unique formating and editorial enhancements are under copyright, but what about the text of the code itself? Yes
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Bummer. I was hoping that courts had considered muni codes part of the public domain in instances like these. On the other hand, here's a resource I disagree with (My position is that they are copyrightable, but that almost any conceivable use is fair use)
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nm posted:I think you may be incorrect, but I'm not the ip attorney. I know there's been some issues with this re:penal codes. Well, the courts are getting it wrong then, insofar as the Copyright Act clearly states that all fixed works are copyrighted except for those created by the federal government, but it's hardly a big deal given that it's all the same result.
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ibntumart posted:May I ask what you base your unqualified yes on? 17 U.S.C. §§ 102, 105.
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nm posted:Westlaw just crashed on my rear end, but the case law in California is this: That, at least, makes sense, like the state decides whether a work is released to the public domain, like any other author.
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nm posted:In every state I've ever seen, you run a red light only when you enter the intersection on red. It is not a violation of law to be in the intersection on a red as long as you entered on green or yellow. Virginia seems to be different: quote:Steady amber indicates that a change is about to be made in the direction of the moving of traffic. When the amber signal is shown, traffic which has not already entered the intersection, including the crosswalks, shall stop if it is not reasonably safe to continue, but traffic which has already entered the intersection shall continue to move until the intersection has been cleared. The amber signal is a warning that the steady red signal is imminent. Not that I practice traffic law in Virginia We have left on red though which is nice
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This is the guy who has been posting about how you don't need a lawyer for criminal matters because he successfully defended himself in a traffic case, fwiw
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The reason I think lawyers were pissed off in the past about it is because, strangely enough, we actually care about defendants (our prosecutors notwithstanding), and don't want them to make dumb mistakes that have serious consequences, and you were telling people that we aren't necessary, so to hold you up as an example of Why You Should Get A Lawyer is, frankly, a public service.
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Not a practicing lawyer, but I'd be interested in hearing if the criminalized fraud is only in the formation of the marriage or in the continuance of the marriage. That is, it is a crime to marry a foreigner for the purposes of their acquiring citizenship, but I'm at least not aware of any requirement to divorce.
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If you can't find a lawyer by then, you still need to show up obviously, and requesting a continuance in person to find a lawyer would be a good idea. I'd still try to find a lawyer before then.
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Konstantin posted:From my reading of the case, you should be okay, but there are a few things you should be aware of. First of all, this case is only controlling in the 8th circuit (AR, IA, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) so if you live anywhere else MLB can sue you and the court doesn't have to follow their precedent. This isn't a huge deal, and they probably won't bother with the expense since they are unlikely to win, but if they are assholes they may try it to put you out of business. Second, MLB has the right to deny you access to their servers. I would download the statistics once and put them on a server you control, then have the app get them from there. If you try and have the app get them directly from MLB's servers, they will probably block you if they notice. If I were MLB's lawyers, I'd argue that even if the statistics themselves are public domain, taking the statistics from MLB's servers is a derivative work of the particular presentation made by the MLB, and that in order to provide such statistics, they must be gathered independently from MLB's own work trying to expand INS v. AP in some way.
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Konstantin posted:I assume he would take the statistics and format them in a specific way for his app. I don't see anything in that XML file that would be copyrightable under Feist v. Rural, despite MLB's claims to the contrary. Yeah, forgot about that.
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From what little I remember, I thought the model answer was that Terry had a property right in Bob's career.
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iloverice posted:I'll preface this by saying I know I made a lot of mistakes in this situation. I won't be making them again. You're dumb as hell, Jesus E: aren't they both liable?
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Deschain posted:My best friend is a resident of Tampa, Florida whose birth certificate originated in Texas. He is a post-operative transsexual who needs to have the gender-marker on his birth certificate altered to reflect his reassigned sex. He contacted the office of vital statistics in the county in Texas where he was born, and they said he requires a court order from his current state of residence to have the birth certificate changed. We need to find out the procedure for petitioning for such a court order in Florida, that he can then send to Texas. Do we actually need a lawyer for this, or is it something he can file himself, like the paperwork for a legal name change (which he's already gotten)? And if so, can someone help us out on how to do it? Also, is it possible to have a Texas birth certificate amended to reflect a legal name change as well, and if so, can we accomplish both of these things in one fell swoop? (He has the necessary documentation from his surgeon/health care providers indicating the official validity of the sex reassignment.) Follow-up question, because I'm curious: a heterosexual couple gets married, and one person in the marriage decides to undergo gender reassignment with the other partner's knowledge and consent and approval and etc. etc. (i.e., they intend to remain married). Has this ever been done (I'd be surprised if it hasn't), and is there anything about what happens to the marriage (in any state)?
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joat mon posted:No, that kind of consortium was illegal under the common law. Courts still don't much care for sodomy?
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Pfft. Doctors. Doctors are idiots. There's no telling what kind of permanent injuries he might have. You might have to wait on him hand and foot for the rest of his natural life. That's the downside. Now, here's the good part! You can ching-ching-ching cash in on this tragedy! . . . The state bar forbids me from promising you a big cash settlement, but just between you and me, I promise you a big cash settlement. My fee is 50%.
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Alchenar posted:No. Is that true? I know at my job, annual leave accrues such that you get paid for unused leave when you quit, but I don't know if that's part of my union-negotiated poo poo, or if it's just "hey, it's the law."
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Jaytan posted:Not a legal question, but related to legal process. I have a pretrial hearing for a misdemeanor offense coming up and have already retained a lawyer. I'm shocked and dismayed that this got a serious response that wasn't "a bottle of liquor."
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Given that the apartment knows their respective credit scores, I wouldn't be surprised if they were entirely uninterested in letting him off the lease and letting her stay.
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comedy make it your signature except nobody uses signatures
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Macunaima posted:How many lawyers are on this thread? All of us
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$739+10%=$813, so I'm not sure why it matters whether $819 or $919 is your rent for the purposes of that cited statute. Then again, I'm some random rear end in a top hat on the internet.
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Arcturas posted:Also, what are the terms and requirements for termination of the lease? If you don't agree, could they just terminate the lease? He said the lease expires at the end of August, so I'd imagine the answer would be yes.
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Jesus christ, you have two children and your answer is to go to law school? Have fun pissing away their college tuition. e: Going to law school counts as "starting over" given your background fyi. Absolutely nothing you've done is relevant experience for law school, much less actually practicing law.
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nern posted:yeah, im not a one-percenter that can afford to buy my children cars and pay for them to go to fancy schools. they can go to school the same way i did, by working and taking out student loans. the illusion that upward mobility is possible and that people who are poor are poor by some fault of there own is one of the biggest lies which pervades our culture and is falsified by even the slightest research into socio-economic data. hate to break it to you, but there are some of us for whom doing things like starting a college tuition fund and investing and poo poo like that is simply a pipe dream. we weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouths. Have fun pissing away $200k on some misguided quest to prove the internet wrong
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Well, I did go start law school eight years ago at a time when merely walking in the door actually was pretty much a guarantee of gainful employment. On the other hand, you're talking about going to school when it's about 50% more expensive than when I did, and job prospects are much worse. And in retrospect the only things that have saved me is a) I was in fact born with a silver spoon in my mouth and b) I graduated as the legal market started crashing (we were a leading indicator of the recession, hooray!) but before it had hit bottom. Also, making fun of people for making dumb choices is kinda the raison d'etre of something awful.
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nern posted:what are you even talking about? i have completely acknowledged the risks involved with law school and said that i understand completely the warnings, etc. im not trying to prove anyone wrong, i am simply pursuing the best option for me, fully aware of and acknowledging the risks. It's the best option much like saying in this thread "Well, I've been charged with vehicular homicide, but I think I have a pretty good grasp on how to go about defending myself due to watching a whole bunch of Law and Order. Am I doing the right thing?" is.
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xxEightxx posted:And then the economy rebounds, you are an 8 year attorney averaging about $250k a year, and a couple years off from being an equity partner. Meanwhile non-lawschool you is still making 40k a year. Man I love hypothetical wars. a) Assuming he goes to law school, he's graduating no sooner than 2016, so he's competing with almost a decade's worth of JDs that haven't entered the legal market since the legal downturn in 2007 (which, if you'll note, was before the recession: a point that will become important soon!) b) The legal market is hosed for different reasons than the economy as a whole. If the problems in the legal market were caused by the recession, the pain would have been spread on through all levels of associates, as work dries up for everyone. Instead, you have a massacre of new lawyers who are unhireable because law school fundamentally does not train you to become a lawyer and clients know that. Clients aren't just demanding lower billing rates across the board; they're demanding that firms don't even staff new associates on their matters, because the clients don't want to be paying for training newly-minted associates as to how to do their jobs. This isn't getting into issues involving outsourcing, which really are recent innovations in the legal market. Suffice to say that the legal market's contraction is likely permanent, and recovery is going to be evidenced merely by a cessation in the bankruptcies of firms.
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Maera Sior posted:I have a landlord/tenant/sublease question. Maryland, PG county. http://www.dclawstudents.org/ They can get you a referral to someone in MD who does L&T law who can probably answer this for you.
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Maera Sior posted:Thanks. I'd rather have an answer before next week (obviously), but I'll go in on Tuesday. You can just call, because they don't do MD themselves, so you can save yourself the trip.
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