| Among many recent legal letters, we were most impressed by those from representatives of Cameron Diaz, regarding her recent litigation with some nasty man who is trying to make money marketing a video that, from descriptions, shows Ms. Diaz topless. We're thinking they must get paid by the word -- either that or they're trying to stretch their billable hours. Seriously, endless.
Hey, legal friends: there's this thing called "reporting," not that we're any sort of experts on it ourselves, but we see them try it at newspapers, so we know it's probably okay to report on things that are illegal. Anyway, we didn't know about any of your "injunction" business because, hmm, we're not psychic, and why would we?
But now we know, and so we won't do anything that we didn't do in the first place.
Ms. Diaz's also lawyers seem to think that publication of their letter infringes their copyright. Setting aside, of course, issues of fair use -- and decades of fairly obvious precedent about the ownership of letters -- shouldn't non-published copyrighted works must be registered prior to infringement? At least that's what I seem to remember -- I was pretty baked during that year I (unfortunately) spent as a paralegal.
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