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LawMeme Acquired by MPAA
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, April 01 @ 08:17:00 EST News

Following secret negotiations that took place through the past weekend, this morning in a joint statement Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Jack Balkin, director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, announced that LawMeme would now be the Voice of the Copyright IndustryTM. "I'm very excited to be working on behalf of a visionary organization that saw the dangers of the VCR well before anyone else," said LawMeme editor Ernest Miller, as he attempted to stuff large stacks of hundred dollar bills in his trouser pockets. "Hopefully, LawMeme will be able to serve the long-term interests of consumers by convincing the Information Technology and Consumer Electronics industries to surrender unconditionally to the irrational demands of the Voice of the Copyright IndustryTM."

"I take back all the mean things I said about legal academics," said Mr. Valenti. "Really, compared to politicians, they are quite a bargain."

UPDATE 1120 EST 01 April 2002

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When asked for comment, Zalawan responded that, "Choosing me as the director, well, that was reasonable!"

 
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by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Monday, April 01 @ 10:00:14 EST
In a related story, Yale Law School student Lam Nguyen-Bull initiated a suit against Lawmeme for trademark infringement. In the complaint filed at the district courthouse in Billings, MT, she alleged that "Lawmeme" sounds suspiciously like "Lam-eme," thereby causing consumer confusion and unfairly capitalizing on her efforts to build up goodwill in the marketplace.


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