Who Is Your Lawyer?

Commentary on Intangible Assets, Fair Use and Parody

Who Is Your Lawyer? header image 9

Entries Tagged as 'poems'

Hemingway’s Suitcase

March 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Arcana

As the literary-minded will no doubt recall, on the cusp of Hemingway’s early fame virtually all of his finished but as yet unpublished work was lost in a bizarre twist of fate. The incident, which occurred in late December, 1922, is noted by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and receives half a paragraph in Carlos [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Relax, You Already Have a Copyright

February 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Copyright

Many artists operate under the mistaken belief that unless the copyright symbol © appears next to the title of their work, then their novels, screenplays, lyrics, poems, manuscripts and other assorted  jottings aren’t protected by the copyright laws.  Fortunately, this assumption — while historically accurate — no longer holds true today.  Under the copyright laws [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

[Read more →]

Tags:······