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Precious little, say legal experts. If Salinger had the foresight to invite a good estate planner to Cornish, New Hampshire, it's likely that he will rule his literary empire from the grave. "Legally, his death should have no significance at all, " says Richard Dannay, an intellectual property lawyer in New York City. "His works are in copyright, and remain in copyright." (See TIME's tribute to J.D. Salinger...
Those copyrights pass to his estate, say lawyers, and Salinger may have left detailed directions about how to proceed. If his extraordinarily private style held true in his will-making, would-be adapters of the Salinger oeuvre are out of luck. "If he says that he doesn't want a revised work, or a secondary work or a derivative work, or he doesn't want anything related to Catcher in the Rye licensed, then whoever is managing his estate would be bound by that, " says Jon Tandler, a publishing lawyer in Denver. "He can say, 'Thou shall not create...
...lead attorney defending Prop 8, former Justice Administration lawyer Charles Cooper, made a similar point in his argument before Walker. "The same-sex marriage is simply too novel an experiment at this stage to allow for any firm conclusions about its long-term effect on traditional marriage and the societal interests," he said...
...course, what makes this fight in a San Francisco courtroom so special is that it's not just a fiery classroom debate over theology, but a fight over evidence that will be used by lawyers on appeal to convince higher courts that the prohibitions against gay marriage are illegal under the U.S. Constitution. Pizer, the gay-rights lawyer, says that has been the key to Olson and Boies' strategy throughout the trial. "The presentations are a combination of evidence that relates to the elements of the particular legal tests and also compelling narrative that shows who gay people are, which...
...Buddhist and human rights lawyer, at the age of 24 in 1970 he became the youngest person ever elected to Parliament...