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Parodies are eligible for copyright protection. The owner of a copyrighted work can keep it, exclusively license it (like to a publisher), broadly license it (like under a Creative Commons license), or release it to the public domain.
The more complex issue here is whether or not the work is in fact a parody and fair use. <em>Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.</em>, 510 U.S. 569 (1994) is a good example of how parody works in fair use.
I am commenting now to remind me to answer in full later.
For now because I am due in court in 30 minutes I will let you know about a great essay my law professor wrote
"To Catch the Lion Tether the Goat" by Derrick Carter it is free online
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/akronlawreview/vol42/iss1/4/
Here is a link to download the PDF
It should help start the conversation until I get back from court and answer this more fully.
Maybe a copy of One L? Might be slightly old, you should probably skim it first. I read it at like 28 so sex/language/etc wouldn't have leapt out at me.
Uber drivers and tort liability is a very hot topic right now. Take a gander at those google results, you'll probably find some great discussion there.
This page from AirBnb probably has the answer to your AirBnB question.
It’s sort of a cliche at this point, but Thomas Piketty has been pretty important in the last year as demonstrating conclusively that the amount of wealth hoarded by the very, very rich has only been increasing. I’d read Capital in the Twenty-First Century along with Galbraith’s The Affluent Society.
Richard Thaler, who recently won the Nobel Prize in economics, has been instrumental in showing that humans don’t behave rationally, in contradiction to economic models which assume they do.
This has nothing to do with patents. If a patent was involved, it would say "patent pending" or "patent #123"
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Creative Commons is a copyright license as far as I know. See here for a summary: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
NC means non-commercial, so you cannot commercialize it.
And maybe you missed the part where you specified that it should include contact management, lead generation, external/internal communication, and secure document sharing. That’s not an “MVP” for CRM, it’s a full product. And all of those features are in Clio (not to mention other practice management products) either natively or through integrations.
You’re also competing with a boatload of free CRM options.
But sure, keep snarking at your critics. Let me know how that works out for you.
Very much doubt you will find books that tackle both, or at least tackle them both very well. Most books regarding the history/development of common law will only address the history of it through England and early America. There will almost certainly be little to no mention of Critical Legal Theory in those books. And books that deal with Critical Legal Theory will only address the development of the common law insofar as it is needed to give context for developing their argument; it certainly will not provide any meaningful comprehensive look at it.
If you want to read an excellent history of this common law, I'd suggest this book. Your local library should be able to get it via interlibrary loan for you if you don't want to buy it.
<em>Legal Systems Very Different From Ours</em> by David Friedman. A good overview on a number of legal systems that are - indeed - very different from anything Americans are used to! There's discussions of legal systems from ancient times - Imperial China, early Judaic and Islamic law, Saga-period Iceland, pre-Roman Ireland, the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes of North America, and ancient Athens. There's also chapters on the "pirate codes" of the 17th-18th centuries, prison legal systems, the social/governance codes of the Amish and Romani (gypsies), and a fascinating discussion of xeer, the polycentric tribal law system still used in modern Somalia. Kind of dense and academic, but not bad for $5 on Kindle!
Buy the logic games bible.
https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Nowhere-Reynolds-French-Foreign/dp/1532077726
He lost his citizenship by joining the French Foreign Legion, but was nationalized when he was in the US military for two years.
How does this fit in with what you said?
If you're interested, there was literally an entire book written on <em>What Roe vs. Wade Should Have Said</em>, where a bunch of big name liberal law professors (Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, Reva Siegel, Mark Tushnet, Robin West, etc.) come up with their own "decisions", writing as Justices trying to justify the holding in Roe but with sources available at the time of the original decision. (Balkin et. al. have written two other books in this vein critiquing the decisions in Brown v. Board of Education on segregation and Obergfell v. Hodges on gay marriage, other decision which made major changes to the law but whose legal reasoning is considered shaky even by their defenders.)
I don't know the answer to your question specifically, but if you are at all interested in the history of scientific expert testimony, then I recommend that you check out <em>Laws of Men and Laws of Nature</em>. It's probably my favorite book from undergrad.
For specifically legal writing, I found the Redbook invaluable as a starting attorney. It's probably not massively helpful if you're not writing legal briefs or motions though.
Yeah I appreciate the understanding that some of these case have a 5 second sound byte that's ridiculous, while there's more merit.
In the McDonald's case, there was also a finding of 20% comparative negligence, that is the lady was partially at fault for her actions. That's something to know about these sort of verdicts. Different states have different outcomes for that sort of finding. Some reduce recovery by 20%. Some allow recovery up to ~50% of the defendant's own negligence. Some have 'contributory negligence' where any negligence on the part of the defendant voids a recovery.
If you want to see ridiculous law suits, look up pro-se filings at federal district court. Prisoners with a lot of time, not always good mental health, and a grudge file mounts of lawsuits.
Those that are deemed to do enough without merit are identified as vexatious litigants, and forced to require a judge or attorney's sign off before they may file a lawsuit.
Different states and courts have thresholds. Jonathan Lee Riches is probably the most famous. He's filed well over 2600 lawsuits.
Amazon has a book of his filings. https://www.amazon.com/Comes-Now-Plaintiff-Selected-Lawsuits/dp/1530603838/