In a 1980 debate with then President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, remarked, "There You Go Again." In a 1989 interview with Reagan by Jim Lehrer, Reagan explained "it just seemed to be the thing to say in what he was saying up there, because it was to me ...

The Tenth Circuit has issued an interesting opinion on personal jurisdiction, Dudnikov v. Chalk & Vermillion Fine Arts, Inc. (No. 06-1458). Plaintiffs were Power Sellers on eBay. Among the things they sold were two prints that were a parody of images by the (I think ...

Jay Leno, NBC, and others (Rita Rudner, Jimmy Brogan, Diane Nichols, Sue Pascoe, Kathleen Madigan and Bob Ettinger) against comedy author Judy Brown and her publishers for the unauthorized publishing thousands of their jokes in 19 books over 10 years, entitled “The Funny Pages, Squeaky Clean Comedy, Funny You Should ...

The District Judge in the Romantics v. Guitar Hero suit has issued her opinion, The Romantics v. Activision Publishing, Inc., 2008 WL 186370 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 22, 2008). Relevant excerpts are reproduced below. On the right of publicity claim, the judge notes that Michigan has not recognized a right of ...

An important rationale for the lack of copyright in judicial opinions is the belief that the public should have free access to the laws they are commanded to obey. But lack of copyright is not the same thing as providing access. The Internet is beginning to solve the access problem, ...