Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 2009/01

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Copyright rant
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:53:18 -0500

Alexander Brash posted:

<<you're completely wrong, but I don't have the time to explain it right now
- when I get some time on the airplane.>>>

Really? I eagerly await your next airplane ride so that you can teach me
about such things.

You seem like such a bright lad, but part of being smart is knowing what you
don't know - and you most definitely do not know squat about copyright law.

Where exactly did you get your law degree? Has anyone ever paid you to
write a copyright license, for music, software, architectural drawings,
anything at all? I know you went to Harvard - you proclaim it on your
eponymous web site. Funny how I couldn't find your listing in the Law
School's alumni directory though.

You'll find me there, LL.M class of 1988 (a proud classmate of Michele
Obama, nee Robinson). That would be my second law degree - I earned the
first one from SUNY in 1985. I've licensed some music copyrights, but a lot
more small-dollar stuff like building designs, industrial plans and even a
little software here and there. (Like those volume license agreements that
Fortune-500 companies sign with a little company in Redmond - I wrote them,
you see.)

I've spent almost a quarter of a century writing and negotiating copyright
licenses, among other things, and have made a rather tidy living at it.
You, OTOH, have not been toilet trained that long.

I hope the "consulting advice" you peddle off of your web site does not
include the legality of derivative works. Aside from the unauthorized
practice of law, it would be malpractice to boot.

kjf

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