Re: to the point/Latin mutterings

Mike Lean writes:
>
> I agree. Do you however, see the adjustments of the law coming about by
> increasingly more complex codification, with all sorts of exclusions and
> ifs and buts and things tacked on to the legislation, or just through the
> general doctrines of interpretory(?) discretion you describe above. Does
> our copyright act get longer and longer, or will the same questions (and
> possibly litigation) occur over and over?

Since I see few simple answers to complex issues I suspect that the statute will get longer and the number of cases intepreting the statute to increase. That's why copyright and intellectual property generally are good fields for young lawyers to enter.

  Don Berman --  

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