Fair Use: Can Lawyers Copy One Anothers Litigation Documents?
am 07.05.2006 von JurabilisEvery day, lawyers sit at their desks, struggling to find the right words to use in a complaint or a memorandum of law, with the hopes that those words will persuade the court or the other side of the correctness of their clients position. A substantial number of these lawyers turn to another attorneys work for language sometimes simply a particularly clear paragraph describing a complex legal issue, and sometimes a larger portion containing an especially cogent legal argument and incorporate it into their own document. This process has almost certainly been repeated for decades, and most likely for centuries. While a superficial analysis might lead the fair use defense to be rejected because allegedly infringing litigation …
Fair Use im Markenrecht
German American Law Journal :: US-Recht auf Deutsch / CK - Washington. Das Markenrecht ist bekanntlich dreigeteilt: Bundesmarken, Einzelstaatsmarken und Common Law Marken. Zum ersten Bereich hat der Oberste Bundesgerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten in Washington am 8. Dezember 2004 klargestellt, …
Studie: Wird Fair Use überleben?
Handakte WebLAWg / Während es im kontinentaleuropäischen Urheberrecht sogenannte Schrankenregelungen gibt (wie z.B. das Recht auf Privatkopie), gibt es im im Copyright das sogenannte “Fair Use“. Passend dazu hat heute das “Free Expression Policy Projec…
Schriftsätze abschreiben
German American Law Journal :: US-Recht auf Deutsch / CK - Washington. Was in der Blogwelt bis zum Absurden praktiziert wird - das Abschreiben und Wiederkauen -, regt die Anwaltschaft immer mehr auf. Die Diskussion um die Wiederverwendung von Schriftsätzen durch Dritte gerät in Fahrt. I…
Zivilprozess: Klassiker des amerikanischen Anwalts- und Gerichtsfilms
Recht und Film / aus der juristichen Filmkritik In Toxic Tort Litigation, Truth Lies at the Bottom of a Bottomless Pit von Prof. Michael Asimow - UCLA Law School: The film dramatizes the human side of the litigation, while presenting the realities of complex tort l…
Canadian multilingual legal glossary/Glossar kanadisches Rechtsenglisch
Transblawg / A comment by Cheryl Stephens (Plain Language Wizardry) under the last entry recommends a multilingual legal glossary at Vancouver Community College. Unfortunately this has no German. It offers plain-language definitions of 5000 terms in Canadian law…
Zivilprozess: Klassiker des amerikanischen Anwalts- und Gerichtsfilms
Recht und Film / The film dramatizes the human side of the litigation, while presenting the realities of complex tort litigation more successfully than any other film. Deutscher Titel: Zivilprozess, OT: A Civil Action, USA 1998 Sat1, Sonntag, 25.06., Spielfilm/Dra…
Legal IT on blawgs/Artikel über WebLAWgs
Transblawg / The current issue of Legal IT has an article on weblogs, especially weblogs for lawyers, by Joy London, of the always interesting blawg excited utterances. Joy works for Allen & Overy in knowledge and training management, so she calls herself...…
What is the constitutional order of the European Union now?
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / It is a commonly asked question – what is the legal basis (the constitutional framework) under which the European Union is operating now? This is debated by academics and legal practitioners. But most of the European officials and politicians seem…
Lawyers Suck ...
Jurabilis / Lawrence Lessig is no fan of lawyers. In a contentious debate with Random Houses Richard Sarnoff, the Stanford law professor argued that the publishing industrys lawsuit over Googles book-scanning effort threatens the very soul of the Interne…
About Queens Counsel
Weblawg.de / ... The QC system was suspended three years ago by the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, after concerns were raised about its fairness. Last week the first new QCs since then were appointed under a resumed and reformed process. Only four…
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