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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!

KONIGSBERG INTL. INC.; the Sanitsky Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants,

Anne RICE, Defendant-Appellee (Two Cases).

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 I hope no one minds my sharing a wank this outdated; I thought those who follow Anne Rice wanks would be interested, and so far as I can tell this has only ever been reported in lawyer publications.

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	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. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	greenling 2011-06-06 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	This is beautiful. Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doyle 2011-06-06 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	There's a footnote about legal technicalities in Disney's Little Mermaid... <3! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	viralmemory 2011-06-06 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	That was my favorite part too! Compared to the BYU guy writing the breakdown itself Kozinski's stuff is still a little dry but I surprised myself by reading the whole thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hadesphoenix 2011-06-06 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Entirely OT, but Father Ted icon. <3 (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-06-08 01:48 am UTC (link)
	Even more OT: I took a sign saying 'Down With This Sort Of Thing' to my one and only political demonstration so far. I was so pleased to eventually find a girl with one saying 'CAREFUL NOW'! Naturally, we teamed up. Unfortunately, we didn't get to fight crime. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2011-06-07 12:49 am UTC (link)
	I was about to say that was my favorite part, too, except then I got to the quotes from Judge Kozinski (My favorite so far: "But I just can't imagine a case where the police need to administer a blood test in self-defense.") and it became my favorite part that wasn't a quote from Judge Kozinski. But that's still very impressive! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alcesx2 2011-06-08 12:52 am UTC (link)
	I think I've given up on the review itself. These footnotes are AH-mazing. Especially the Little Mermaid one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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 § 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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	synergasm 2011-06-07 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	I have now read this whole paper. Amazing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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