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Slate quotes Aaron Williamson on Scrabble word list copyright

an article today by Stefan Fatsis about Hasbro’s recent moves to assert a copyright over the Scrabble official word list, which is used to determine which words are acceptable in tournament Scrabble play. Tor Ekeland partner Aaron Williamson was interviewed for the article about the legitimacy of Hasbro’s claims:

“You can have a million interns working at a million typewriters to derive all of these words and go through every page of every dictionary,” says Aaron Williamson, an intellectual property lawyer with the firm Tor Ekeland P.C. in Brooklyn, New York. “If all they’ve done is say this one meets the Scrabble rules and this one doesn’t, they probably haven’t done enough to deserve a copyright.”
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Road to Nowhere

In Liminae: The Road to Nowhere

It takes us about six hours to drive to the rural state jail (that’s owned by two judges) the Feds contracted with to hold our client. Accused of computer crimes, he can’t effectively review evidence in jail – there’s no practical access to computers in the gulag. They’ve seized all his assets claiming they’re the ill-gotten gains of crimes the government can’t identify, and their computer forensics – if you can call them that – have no scientific basis and are full of basic errors and typos. In my decade as a federal criminal defense lawyer doing computer cases across the country, I’ve never come across a case where the government was so completely off.

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent

A defendant’s view from the trenches of federal criminal court This post is originally published to Substack. You can read and follow us there. https://torekeland.substack.com/p/guilty-until-proven-innocent

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