No, really. Intellectual property, Hollywood blacklisting and a washed up alcoholic attorney are all part of Errors and Omissions, a novel by Paul Goldstein, a Stanford prof and one of the top IP and copyright lawyers in the country.
There’s a background interview with Goldstein here where he says, among other things: “It’s a big jump from legal writing to fiction.”
Well, yes, I guess it is.
But he also waxes poetic about the practice of IP and entertainment law, saying he “enjoyed the idea of protecting art through the law.”
My first attraction was to copyright and the notion that law can be used to protect ideas and entertainment and create value from thin air,” Goldstein said.
I love the way he makes copyright law sound so romantic, don’t you?