10 Jul 2003
Mad over Madster

A Copyfighter's Musings has an interesting entry today on Posner's Madster decision. Were this decision to be followed to the letter, it would be illegal to go take a whiz during a commercial break on your favorite TV show ... you'd be "creating a derivative work" by excising the commercials from your eyeballs!

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Illegal Fat

This is for all the folks who laughed when I said that after the lawyers were done with cigarettes, they'd be taking candy from the mouths of babies .....

Food Makers Trim Fat as Lawsuits and Regulations Loom. Food companies are recasting themselves as good corporate citizens worried about soaring obesity rates. By David Barboza. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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