Klarinet Archive - Posting 000382.txt from 2009/01

From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Copyright rant
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

Yikes! Have you had your rabies vaccination yet, Kevin? LOL!! =0D
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On Sun Jan 25 18:53 , 'Kevin Fay' <kevin.fay.home@-----.net> sent:=0D
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>Alexander Brash posted:=0D
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>- when I get some time on the airplane.>>>=0D
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>Really? I eagerly await your next airplane ride so that you can teach me=
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>about such things. =0D
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>You seem like such a bright lad, but part of being smart is knowing what y=
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>don't know - and you most definitely do not know squat about copyright law=
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>Where exactly did you get your law degree? Has anyone ever paid you to=0D
>write a copyright license, for music, software, architectural drawings,=0D
>anything at all? I know you went to Harvard - you proclaim it on your=0D
>eponymous web site. Funny how I couldn't find your listing in the Law=0D
>School's alumni directory though. =0D
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>You'll find me there, LL.M class of 1988 (a proud classmate of Michele=0D
>Obama, nee Robinson). That would be my second law degree - I earned the=
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>first one from SUNY in 1985. I've licensed some music copyrights, but a l=
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>more small-dollar stuff like building designs, industrial plans and even a=
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>little software here and there. (Like those volume license agreements tha=
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>Fortune-500 companies sign with a little company in Redmond - I wrote them=
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>you see.) =0D
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>I've spent almost a quarter of a century writing and negotiating copyright=
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>licenses, among other things, and have made a rather tidy living at it.=0D
>You, OTOH, have not been toilet trained that long.=0D
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>I hope the "consulting advice" you peddle off of your web site does not=0D
>include the legality of derivative works. Aside from the unauthorized=0D
>practice of law, it would be malpractice to boot.=0D
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