Overlawyered » publishers http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 February 3 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:10:50 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27321
  • Judge blocks California budget cuts re: in-home services for disabled [Mercury News]
  • Media exploited her daughter for titillation, claims suit by mother of “Toddlers & Tiaras” star [Above the Law]
  • Narrower definition of autism ahead? [Althouse]
  • “Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel for Criticizing the Police” [Sullum, Popehat]
  • Prince George’s County, Maryland, wants to ban liquor deliveries; no harm linked to them, but you can’t be too sure [Ben Giles, Washington Examiner] Centers for Disease Control’s curious definition of “binge” drinking [Sullum]
  • The law of authors’ liability for inaccurate memoirs [Mark Fowler, Rights Of Writers; earlier here, etc.]
  • “Diagnosing Liability: The Legal History of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” [Deirdre M. Smith, SSRN via TortsProf]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/feed/ 1     “Village Voice To Stop Suing Over ‘Best Of’ Lists” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/village-voice-to-stop-suing-over-%e2%80%98best-of%e2%80%99-lists/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/village-voice-to-stop-suing-over-%e2%80%98best-of%e2%80%99-lists/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:53:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27301 “The Village Voice is giving up on a scheme to force rivals to pay for permission to use the phrase ‘best of.’” [Paid Content]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/village-voice-to-stop-suing-over-%e2%80%98best-of%e2%80%99-lists/feed/ 1     “The nastiest copyright notice ever written” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/the-nastiest-copyright-notice-ever-written/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/the-nastiest-copyright-notice-ever-written/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:16:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24446 Terry Teachout thus nominates the verbal barbed wire that surrounds the work of the late poet Louis Zukofsky (see also).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/the-nastiest-copyright-notice-ever-written/feed/ 12     Welcome Boston Globe, New Yorker readers http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/welcome-boston-globe-new-yorker-readers/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/welcome-boston-globe-new-yorker-readers/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:44:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23542 Alex Beam at the Boston Globe and Ian Crouch at the New Yorker write about the rise of lawsuits over unsatisfactory book contents, as with class actions filed over Greg Mortenson’s challenged memoirs and, before that, those of James Frey. Beam also brings up the outrageous lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter and his publisher by someone who disagrees with the views Carter expressed in a book on the Mideast conflict. I’m quoted in both pieces (and at especially generous length in Beam’s). [Boston Globe, New Yorker; earlier here, here, etc.] (& WSJ Law Blog)

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/welcome-boston-globe-new-yorker-readers/feed/ 0     Update: “Judge Bars Woman From Suing Over Faulty Google Map” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/update-judge-bars-woman-from-suing-over-faulty-google-map/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/update-judge-bars-woman-from-suing-over-faulty-google-map/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:56:56 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23422 “Finding that Google has no duty to provide accurate content on its website, a Utah judge has thrown out the novel case of a woman who claimed that faulty walking directions on Google Maps caused her to be hit by a car.” [OnPoint News, earlier here, etc.] The same post, updating another story we’ve noted, reports that a bill to make guidebook publishers liable for some injuries to tourists has died in the Hawaii legislature.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/update-judge-bars-woman-from-suing-over-faulty-google-map/feed/ 3     “There is money to be had when the right kind of book scandal comes along.” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/there-is-money-to-be-had-when-the-right-kind-of-book-scandal-comes-along/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/there-is-money-to-be-had-when-the-right-kind-of-book-scandal-comes-along/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:37:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23348 Welcome Daily Beast readers: Newsweek reporter Mike Giglio quotes me on the class action lawsuits filed over Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea. Earlier coverage here.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/there-is-money-to-be-had-when-the-right-kind-of-book-scandal-comes-along/feed/ 1     “Media industry awash in cease-and-desist letters” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/media-industry-awash-in-cease-and-desist-letters/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/media-industry-awash-in-cease-and-desist-letters/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:19:10 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23195 “Spin magazine slapped Eric Rice, a Portland, Oregon Twitter user, with a cease-and-desist over his ‘@Spin‘ Twitter handle…. Spin, however, may just be following the precedent set by other magazines. Entrepreneur, for one, is notorious for bullying small businesses that use the word ‘entrepreneur,’ a term that the magazine claims to own.” [Dylan Stableford, Yahoo Cutline]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/media-industry-awash-in-cease-and-desist-letters/feed/ 1     “Three Cups of Tea” furor http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/three-cups-of-tea-furor/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/three-cups-of-tea-furor/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 05:16:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23158 It might eventuate in another deeply flawed book-reader class action, predicts Andrew Trask (earlier on James Frey “Million Little Pieces” suits).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/three-cups-of-tea-furor/feed/ 3     Guidebook-author liability? http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/guidebook-author-liability/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/guidebook-author-liability/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 13:45:47 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22818 A proposed Hawaii law would assign liability to guidebook writers for some injuries at risky tourist sites [WSJ]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/guidebook-author-liability/feed/ 0     “A Comic-Book History of Comic-Book Lawsuits” http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/a-comic-book-history-of-comic-book-lawsuits/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/a-comic-book-history-of-comic-book-lawsuits/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:45:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21933 Evil Twin Comics:
    Get ready for non-stop action, action, action — LEGAL action, that is! The incredible, insane true story of the American comic book industry continues with the ALL-LAWSUIT ISSUE! DC vs. Fawcett! Disney vs. the Air Pirates! Jack Kirby vs. Marvel over his stolen artwork! Steve Gerber over Howard the Duck! Don De Carlo over Josie and the Pussycats!

    ["Comic Book Comics #5" via THR Esq. and Lowering the Bar]

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