Legal Commentary

You Know You?re in Trouble When ...

By Eugene Volokh

You know you?re in trouble when the opinion in your case contains this early footnote:

Plaintiff begins his argument rhetorically, querying whether the following sentence is copyrightable: ?To be, or not to be, that is the question?? (RW Opp?n at 1 (quoting William Shakespeare, Hamlet act 3, sc. 1).) Perhaps, a more appropriate play from which to draw quotations would be Much Ado About Nothing.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).