I recently began work on a book about plagiarism and the law. Given the subject’s lively controversy in this digital age of “everything’s up for grabs” – consider the lawsuit against Led Zeppelin for supposedly appropriating the music to “Stairway to Heaven”; the resignation of a memb
The effusiveness surrounding the death of Prince, the pop music star otherwise known as Prince Rogers Nelson and the hieroglyph formerly known as Love Symbol #2, has included some asides about his litigiousness. In protecting his intellectual property, he was at least as aggressive as
(Parts of this essay originally appeared in my column in The Lawyers Weekly) Colloquialisms in a legal context can give the translator at least as much trouble as legalese. In 2001 I was called upon to translate some material dealing with trademark infringement and the famous remark b