Showing posts with label legal matters baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal matters baby. Show all posts
03 July 2026

Credit Where It’s Due

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I view the public discussion over fair credit for Rachel Hope Cleves’s Charity and Sylvia in Tillie Walden’s Charity and Sylvia from a pa...
02 July 2026

Can This Marriage Be Saved?

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On 1 July, the Comics Beat published an article about the disagreement over fair credit for Rachel Hope Cleves’s Charity and Sylvia in Ti...
22 May 2026

Ernie Morrison’s Tutor, Miss Zenobia Frierson

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I first mentioned that Ernie Morrison had an individual tutor while he worked at the Hal Roach Studio back here . At that time, I knew tha...
06 May 2026

“Ended an eight-year engagement with Hal Roach”

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Ernie Morrison starred in the Our Gang films regularly for more than two years, from January 1922 to March 1924. The only other movies he ...
08 October 2025

“Film World Opens Doors Wide”

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In November 1925, the New York American announced a “Motion Picture Contest” for children. For weeks it promoted that competition with arti...
20 May 2025

Easy Cases Make Good Law?

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The Washington Post and Forbes reported on how five US Supreme Court justices recused themselves on a copyright infringement case. Four ...
21 March 2025

Pulled into the World of AI Language Models

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The Atlantic Monthly just published a searchable listing of works uploaded to the LibGen collection of pirated writing. I found two th...
06 March 2025

Raskin Returns, the Sequel

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As Publishers Weekly points out , there’s poetic irony in two previously unknown literary projects surfacing from the literary estate of El...
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14 March 2020

The Magic Wand of Tudor Jenks

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I’ve been enjoying the Magic Wand book set by Tudor Jenks, published in 1905. This collection of modern fairy tales first came to my att...
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15 November 2019

Breakdown

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Let’s imagine that Donald Trump paid millions of dollars—assuming he actually has that much money to spend—to officials of a foreign gover...
14 November 2015

Planetary Copyright

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Here’s an interesting wrinkle about international copyright protections: The classic novella “The Little Prince” fell into the public do...
24 November 2014

Having Trouble with This Aspect of Darren Wilson’s Testmony

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According to Officer Darren Wilson, after his first brief exchange on 9 August with Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson about walking in a Ferg...
14 November 2014

Family Fairness, Then and Now

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Back in early October, The Hill reported : Congressional Republicans are outraged that President Obama may take executive action on immig...
27 October 2014

When Harry Hardin Met Anna

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Anna Todd’s After is taking the English-language publishing industry’s exploration of fanfiction to the edge of legality. Originally pu...
17 February 2014

A Jury That Did Not Compromise

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In the trial of Michael Dunn for killing Jordan Davis, the instructions to the jury offered the possible charges of first-, second-, and t...
04 February 2014

A Testimonial to the Power of Lawsuits

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Last fall Deadline.com reported a curious lawsuit involving the estate of Jack Haley, Jr., and Time Warner, current owner of rights to the ...
23 December 2013

Phil Robertson “Blind and Naïve to the Suffering of Others”

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This month a widely discussed article in GQ quoted the duck-call magnate and reality-television personality Robertson saying, among other t...
17 December 2013

A Very Bad Man

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Last week’s news that the federal government was going to extract some money from J. P. Morgan for its complaisance in Bernard Madoff’s inv...
15 November 2013

Lindsey Graham and the Unreliable Contractor

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This fall Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster with an explicit politically conservative mandate, released The Embassy H...
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23 August 2013

Rep. Kerry Bentivolio’s Plan to Avoid Being a Laughingstock

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Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan provided this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome . As quoted by Buzzfeed and elsewhere , Bentivoli...
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