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mosellegreen ([info]mosellegreen) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2011-06-05 16:20:00
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Entry tags:books/authors, lawyerism, person: anne rice

A vintage Anne Rice wank I've wanted to share for years
But I had lost the information.

15 years ago I worked as a proofreader for a legal publisher. During that time, I came across a 1994 appellate case involving Anne Rice. I printed it out and saved it for years, because I was and am a fan of her novels, but I thought that it had gotten thrown away during one of my moves. Which was a shame, because I wished I could share it on f_w.

Yesterday I was going through a box of old stuff and found out I still had the opening page. I put the info into Google and found the case!

That might well have been the end of the story, but for the fact that Rice thereafter tried to vindicate her position by writing a somewhat indignant letter to K & S's lawyer.... Not only did this letter fail to shame K & S into contrition, it gave them what they thought was the missing link to their argument--a writing signed by the author. Armed with this new evidence, K & S brought a Rule 60(b) motion and a request for leave to amend their complaint, claiming that they now had a writing sufficient to satisfy section 204 of the Copyright Act."
 


That is, her long-standing habit of writing angry letters to people gave them an excuse to drag her back into court.

There's a tiny bit more info about it here. Also, it seems that in '97, James Cameron was trying to make a movie of The Mummy.

And that is all I could find about this case. I hope no one minds my sharing a wank this outdated; I thought those who follow Anne Rice wanks would be interested, and so far as I can tell this has only ever been reported in lawyer publications.

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[info]quantumreality
2011-06-05 11:08 pm UTC (link)
What impresses me is that the judgement is written in language that (a) makes apt use of analogies, and (b) tries not to be so dull as to be unreadable.

That said it looks like K&S lost twice; the fact that Anne Rice could have exposed herself to court costs and a reversal of judgement doesn't seem to have entered her mind. She seems to have wanted to write a finger-waggy letter just to be snotty about the original verdict.

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[info]blue_penguin
2011-06-06 03:01 am UTC (link)
... this judge is the best judge.

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scifantasy
2011-06-06 02:49 am UTC (link)
"KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge." That explains it.

That judge also once wrote in the "Barbie Girl" case (Mattel suing the record label), "If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it would be Speech-Zilla meets Trademark Kong," and concluded with "The parties are advised to chill."

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[info]seca
2011-06-06 03:34 am UTC (link)
This judge sounds like the most awesome judge ever.

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[info]catmoran
2011-06-06 04:44 am UTC (link)
I have the feeling that his TV hero is Judge Harry Stone.

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[info]kylenne
2011-06-05 11:59 pm UTC (link)
James Cameron's The Mummy would have been the most gloriously awful thing ever. I am genuinely sad the world's been denied that Rifftrax. I am equally sad that the world's been denied the wanky full page ad Anne would have taken out trashing whomever being cast as Ramses.

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[info]peonypavilion
2011-06-06 04:03 pm UTC (link)
She wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Interview with her from 1993, published in early 1994. Scroll down the page to find the relevant quote.) I'm sure Cameron would have been up for that. The gloriousness of the awfulness we have been denied is epic.

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[info]ladysphinx
2011-06-06 01:03 am UTC (link)
Normally I'd say "Oh, Anne Rice, never change," except that this kind of proves that she really hasn't ever changed.

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[info]oxfordcomma
2011-06-06 04:20 am UTC (link)
Just converted! And then reverted.

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[info]baranduyn
2011-06-06 05:16 am UTC (link)
They should make a series from the decision. That's gorgeous.

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[info]viralmemory
2011-06-06 05:19 pm UTC (link)
In looking for more gems from this judge, I found this in one of the Wiki footnotes:

Humor, The Law, and Kozinski's Greatest Hits"

Whoo, talk about footnotes, but I'm a few pages in and the writer is funny and I haven't even gotten to the Kozinski stuff yet.

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[info]greenling
2011-06-06 05:39 pm UTC (link)
This is beautiful. Thank you!

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[info]doyle
2011-06-06 09:48 pm UTC (link)
There's a footnote about legal technicalities in Disney's Little Mermaid... <3!

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[info]librarianmouse
2011-06-07 05:43 am UTC (link)
As an illustration, my friend lamented that his lowest grade in law school resulted from his failure to recopy ยง 1 of the Sherman Anti-trust Act at the beginning of an open book exam. Instead he devoted his time to analyzing issues far more complex than copying a statute word-for-word into a blue book. He learned his lesson.

All footnotes should aspire to be this awesome. And I'm only on the first page!

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[info]synergasm
2011-06-07 09:00 pm UTC (link)
I have now read this whole paper.

Amazing.

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[info]ridureyu
2011-06-07 06:48 am UTC (link)
You guys just aren't interrogating it from the right perspective.

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[info]neridne
2011-06-07 07:54 am UTC (link)
I just want to say with all solemnity: Thank you.

In my book, a good wank is never out of date.

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[info]mosellegreen
2011-06-07 08:21 am UTC (link)
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear that.

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[info]napalmnacey
2011-06-07 09:39 am UTC (link)
Thank fuck Cameron never got his mitts on that franchise. What we got wasn't perfect, but the first two movies are my Saturday Afternoon Thing, you know? Mmmm, Oded Fehr. *swoon*

And you know, nothing Anne Rice does surprises me anymore. It amuses me greatly, but it doesn't surprise me. :)

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2011-06-08 01:55 am UTC (link)
Oded Fehr and Rachel Weisz in tight black, kicking ass with a rifle and the only known movies where Brendan Fraser is attractive? UNFyes.

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[info]librarianmouse
2011-06-08 06:53 am UTC (link)
And even the third movie managed to be terrible in a really entertaining way.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2011-06-08 07:27 am UTC
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It's called "Hello from Sunny Hamunaptra" - [info]napalmnacey, 2011-06-08 07:06 pm UTC
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[info]cmdr_zoom
2011-06-08 07:29 am UTC (link)
A friend of mine calls them (the first one especially) "gamer movies." You can practically see the players around the table and hear the clatter of dice as someone does something awesome, dumb and/or incredibly dangerous.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2011-06-08 01:41 am UTC (link)
A vintage Anne Rice wank

*RUNS FOR THE POPCORN!*

Omg, it's fulla starz!

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[info]mosellegreen
2011-06-09 06:55 am UTC (link)
*beams* We aim to please!

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