Law Students Line Up Behind 'Baby Blue' -- Will Harvard Law Review Sue?
from the law-student-on-law-student-legal-action dept
It took another month and a half or so, but Baby Blue is now available -- and it appears that law students are lining up behind it, rather than the Bluebook. A bunch of folks at Yale Law School and NYU Law School have come out in support of Baby Blue. It appears other law schools are jumping on board as well -- including Harvard Law School, Stanford and more.
Meanwhile, law professor David Post has provided a bit of free legal advice for the Harvard Law Review:
And now... everyone gets to wait and see what the Harvard Law Review Association decides to do.Here’s a bit of free legal advice: If you want to assert copyright protection over something, don’t call it “A Uniform System of Citation” — because systems are, by definition, unprotected by copyright. Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act couldn’t be clearer:
In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, [or] method of operation, … regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
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That "by definition" doesn't apply anymore
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The Law?
Of all the people walking around judges probably know the law the least despite needing to know it the most.
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Don’t call it “A Uniform System of Citation”
Somewhere the Irony Fairy is laughing her head off.
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I'm guessing there's enough money at stake to make it worth considering filing a lawsuit even if they know it's flimsy.
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Re: Yep
In October of 1957, Santa Maria’s new station No. 1 at Cook and McClelland was completed and occupied.
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Definitions
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Looks like Bluebook is getting Blueballs.
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And if they /do/ sue...
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How ironic.
It's almost like they didn't need the copyright in the first place to dominate the market.
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