Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. You can bet he wants to try.
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  2. The American people could not possibly have chosen a worse time to elect an immature, narcissistic moron to office.
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  3. Congrats on the milestone, dude! I've never seen this movie, but now I'm gonna have to dig it up. :) Still would love to see you tackle Roman J. Israel, Esq. Really interesting legal film, starring Denzel, no less!
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  4. The asshole in the White House is actively encouraging civil war. He thinks it'll help his re-election chances.
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  5. +Patrick starshooter Yes, and THAT'S MY WHOLE POINT. Ideas should not be copyrightable. The law is for actual created works, not ideas. If you start slapping a copyright on ideas, eventually nobody will be able to create anything original. Everything will be owned by someone else, artists will be unable to make a living, and you'll have screwed yourself out of the whole POINT of the law to begin with.
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  6. +Lord Knightcon But Ribeiro did NOT create those dances. He specifically said he cribbed them off others. So he's admitted himself that he doesn't have the right to those moves.
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  7. No, it's not an incremental difference. A created work is actually set down while an idea is just floating in someone's head. I could sue everyone who ever came up with something after I was 5 years old by yelling HEY I THOUGHT OF THAT FIRST. Who's going to prove I didn't? That's why copyright is about things that have already been MADE. Books that have been written. Songs that have been recorded. Footage that has been filmed. Copyrighting ideas, as I said, is just going to end up locking down everything so that nobody can ever make a living creatively unless they're paying blood money to somebody else who claims to have thought of it first. It's a vicious circle that's going to end up erasing the entire POINT of copyright law in the first place - to make it possible for artists to make a living.
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  8. How is it that bankruptcy will delay the case? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Seems to me that if you've got a case going about your finances, the LAST thing that you should be allowed to do is file bankruptcy. The existence of the case should make it impossible to file in the first place. Jeez, the ways the law produces for offal like this to get away with their crimes is unreal.
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  9. Thank you very much for this video. It clears up the issue. I'll be posting this video at Wonkette so my fellow commenters can get the skinny on the exact issues. :)
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  10. As always, a fascinating video. Very interesting to hear YT is going after these thugs. :)
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  11. +BrownPower92 Well, he's definitely bold!
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  12. Have you done a video on Inherit the Wind yet? I'd love to hear your opinion on how they handled the Scopes trial.
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  13. +Thirst Fast We are all Uncle Sam now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMSrz0W-irc
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  14. I thought pangolins had been identified as the transmitting agent for COVID-19.
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  15. I called this man's firm on behalf of my mom, who has used Roundup for at least fourty years. But her cancer isn't yet linked to the chemical. The person I talked to said they would put her name on a list they're compiling, should any connection with other types of cancer be discovered. (She has stage 4 lung cancer.)
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  16. Uh huh. Right. Please take your trolling elsewhere, genius.
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  17. Objection! I would say Itchy and Scratchy are a parody of Tom and Jerry, not Disney cartoons.
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  18. Hm. I took that professor's point to be about how this killing wasn't some random person who happened to get in the way, but the actual target of the act. Not about Chauvin's state of mind.
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  19. By the way, hinging on the concept of whether an idea can be copyrighted, I'd love to hear your opinion on the Terminator case, in which author Harlan Ellison sued James Cameron for writing a script about the idea of "soldiers from the future". He claimed the script he'd written for The Outer Limits twenty years before contained ideas that were copyrighted and thus not usable by Cameron without permission. If I remember correctly, Cameron's counterclaim was that the concept itself wasn't subject to copyright, and since his script for The Terminator was substantially different, Harlan had no claim. I think they settled (I might be wrong about that) but I've always wondered how much merit the whole thing had.
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  20. Would have been nice to have some setup before plunging right in. I was totally at sea here. What was the medical problem? How did this case come to court? What the hell is even going on??
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  21. Please consider doing a reaction to "Roman J. Israel, Esq." A really good legal movie that deserves more scrutiny.
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  22. Thanks very much for the recs! I knew about Seth already, and I'll check these other people out.
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  23. The video deals with exactly this issue. No, a channel won't get dinged just because it's animated. Takes a LOT more to mark it as being for kids. There's a ton of fear-mongering and ill-informed panicking going on around this issue. LE is a copyright lawyer - he knows what he's talking about, unlike most of the people running around with their hair on fire. Watch the video.
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  24. Asked and answered.
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  25. I wanna read that book! :D
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  26. Inorite? Everyone seems to be in their damn pajamas, but Mr. Stone is always neat and groomed and ready for court, even during this pandemic. Seeing him like that was disconcerting!
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  27. On the inclusion of the "exonerate" quote, this may sound like a joke, but it's only meant halfway as one. Given the incredible ineptitutde of this administration, is it possible the person who wrote that letter doesn't know what the word means? We're assuming Barr wrote it himself, but unless we can see it in his handwriting, it could have been written by someone else and then signed by him. Because really, the inclusion of that quote is just weird given that Barr is clearly looking for ways to make Trump look good.
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  28. Technically, the claim that the drink had as much caffeine as their coffee was true. There was an equivalent amount in there - but there was also more. For example, I have 10 pennies. Do I have 3 pennies? Yes, I do. I also have 7 more, but that wasn't the question. They didn't lie; they just didn't mention the extra caffeine. Ethically specious but technically true. ETA: I'm puzzled by the epithet "plant-based". What else would be in a glass of lemonade? Makes me very suspicious of their regular lemonade. (There been a weird trend of claiming things for an item that are irrelevant, like saying a can of chicken broth is gluten-free, when chicken broth has nothing to do with gluten in the first place. It's indicative of how stupid there companies think their customers are.)
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  29. Weren't two of them rookies? One had been on the force four days, the other two. That's what I heard, anyway.
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  30. +islamic school Because, as a cop, he had the AUTHORITY to do what bystanders couldn't do. But he let his inertia get in the way. Also, he was PART of the act, not a bystander. There is no bystander law that mandates an uninvolved person has to jump in, but this guy WAS involved. So no, not a good enough excuse when someone is being killed right before your eyes.
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  31. Funny how the right keeps moving the goalposts when it comes to accountability, isn't it?
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  32. Some years back, I was investigating the possibility of training as a stenographer, and I was both amazed and amused to find out that often the stenographer is the highest paid person in the room at a trial. LOL
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  33. OBJECTION. Those pills were not a metaphor, but an illustration. ;)
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  34.  @AaronLitz  "He is nothing but a strongman bully" But that is EXACTLY what his minions think a strong leader should be - a bully. They don't believe in civility or following the law.
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  35.  @AaronLitz  Also, it's funny that the producer of "The Apprentice" has come out and talked about what an enormous effort it was to try and edit the footage in order to make Twitler look like he had any brains. Apparently it was almost all the same kind of stupid blather we've been forced to deal with for four years. So if anyone's to blame of this miscreant lunatic's rise to power, it's that producer AND the ghostwriter of "Art of the Deal". And they've both publicly said they're really, REALLY sorry for every having been involved with this drooling maniac at all.
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  36. Objection: That was not government surveillance. That was Costco.
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  37. LOL, this was great. Thanks for a wonderful intro to the holiday season!
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  38. Objection: You claim you've had no packages stolen since you started with this company, yet you neglect to mention whether you've ever had any packages stolen before then.
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