Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman The ways law rules creativity and creativity informs the practice of law Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:43:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All Creative Work is Derivative http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/03/all-creative-work-is-derivative/ Pat Paulsen, a man over 40 years ahead of his time. Or a measure of how radically the culture has changed. http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/03/pat-paulsen-a-man-apparently-30-years-ahead-of-his-time/ Father Coughlin’s Tea Party, 1939 http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/03/father-coughlins-tea-party-1939/ Lynn Cheney and William Kristol are anti-American. Walter Dellinger, a partner with O'Melveney & Myers, and former head of the Office of Legal Counsel, writes today (in relation to my passionate rejection of Lynn Cheney's attack on lawyers who represented Guantanamo Detainees): It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/03/lynn-cheney-and-william-kristol-are-anti-american/ Requiring licenses for artistic appropriation has nothing to with providing incentives to create. I've been pretty passionate in this blog in expressing my belief that art that appropriates copyrighted work does not infringe the copyrighted work provided the new work stands sufficiently on its own as a creative work. To stand on its own in that way, the new work is one that ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/03/requiring-licenses-for-artistic-appropriation-has-nothing-to-with-providing-incentives-to-create/