Re: droit de suite

From: Mike Holderness <mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:16 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Carol Busby Cricow <carol[_at_]yujean.com> wrote::
>
> I got into intellectual property law by suing the Grateful Dead
> basically on behalf of the parking lot artists who trailed after
> them (and who were poor, counterculture and not around to follow
> up when the Dead's representatives illegal seized their goods;

Err... doesn't John Perry Barlow make a big thing of how the Dead *welcomed* bootlegs (which I assume were being seized) -- as part of his schtick about how in the future performance will be all and fixation a mere promotional tool for it?

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Mike Holderness
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Received on Tue Apr 04 2000 - 23:19:13 GMT

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