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- May 16, 2019
The Nashville pooner shooter manifesto may soon get published, there are several lawsuits against the city that are going through hearings now. So the families of the victims are claiming they own the copyright to the manifesto, in an attempt to block its publication.
This is clearly retarded.
Since Null has become quite the connoisseur of copyright lawsuit shenanigans, I figured he'd like to add this one to the stack.
When Hale died, her parents transferred her estate to her victims' families. The families have intervened in the public records lawsuit against the city and are arguing that the estate includes the killer's manifesto and that therefore they own the copyright.
Through that line of reasoning, they are also asking the judge to block its public release.
This is clearly retarded.
"You can't just assume there is a copyright interest on any particular writing," argued Doug Pierce, an attorney for plaintiffs Clata Renee Brewer and the National Police Association. "The only way they could get copyright protection established is if they would have to show the documents in federal court — in other words, they gotta let the cat out of the bag."
Since Null has become quite the connoisseur of copyright lawsuit shenanigans, I figured he'd like to add this one to the stack.