Scrivener's Error

Law and reality in publishing and entertainment (seldom the same thing) from the creator's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into politics, military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.

12 February 2026

The Usual Suspect

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…who will not be charged with anything, however deserving. In a frustrating condescension that should surprise precisely no one, the IO...
07 February 2026

Cover the Carpet, Please

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Because these link sausages are dripping with contempt. No need for <sarcasm> tags today. Let's start with the usual targets ...
04 February 2026

Mis-Anthropic (6)

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A few minor administrative updates on Bartz v. Anthropic , the class action pending for copyright violations in creating one particular larg...
31 January 2026

Multiorigin Link Sausage Platter

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Not all ingredients fully disclosed — what would be the fun in that? Owners of intellectual property — supposed to be the creators, but...
25 January 2026

Quis Custodes Ipsos Custodes?

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It appears that Paramount or CBS is going to remake a classic Marx Brothers film, 1933's Duck Soup . That photo to the right is from a...
21 January 2026

The Day After the Year After the Revolution

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The most important question, five years after an attempted coup and a year and a day after the provacateur managed to regain office anyway:...
16 January 2026

87.1

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This your host Max Greene. My producer Sara insists that I finish up tonight's requests before heading over to our weekly broadcast at 5...
12 January 2026

NSAIDs Helpful

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'Tis the season for inflammatory rhetoric. Of late, I'm not sure when it isn't. Leaving aside for the moment that somewhere...
05 January 2026

Morning-Again-in-America Sausages

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Would that the origins of these links had partaken of more caffeine before starting the sausage-stuffer… From the Department of Rats-Le...
03 January 2026

Just Another Police Action

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Looks like it's morning again in America DC. Too bad I'm a night owl, who spent most of his first career hoping the clock wouldn...
27 December 2025

Holiday Dinner

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My "holiday dinner" was entirely mythical. The US doesn't have the only legal systems that matter to those in the arts (l...
24 December 2025

Appropriate Enemies

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That is, the opposite of whatever squickiness, by whomever, was going on . Thus, nothing involving children, prurience, or cover-ups. I...
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