{"id":330,"date":"2006-11-27T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/27\/not-adverse-to-poetic-legal-guides\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T20:59:20","slug":"not-adverse-to-poetic-legal-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/27\/not-adverse-to-poetic-legal-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"not adverse to poetic legal guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t mind learning legal basics that have been filtered through a bit of poetic license, you might want to check out Yehuda Berlinger&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/\">Board Games and Gaming Blog<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Yehuda\u00a0occasionally presents verse versions of major statutory schemes.\u00a0 So far, he&#8217;s covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/us-copyright-code-in-verse.html\">Copyright Code in verse<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/us-patent-code-in-verse.html\">Patent Code in verse<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/us-trademark-code-in-verse.html\">Trademark Code in verse<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse.html\">U.S. Armed Forces Code in verse, Chapters 1 and 2<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse_22.html\">Chapters 3-5<\/a>, Chapters <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse_23.html\">6 &#8211; 9<\/a>, Chapters <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse_24.html\">13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21<\/a>, Chapters <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse_26.html\">22, 23 &amp; 31<\/a>, and Chapter <a href=\"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/u-s-armed-forces-code-in-verse_27.html\">32, 33, 33A, 35<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/12\/07#a372\">love of haiku<\/a>, <em>shlep<\/em> does not advise that you rely solely on Yehuda&#8217;s verse for your study of major statutory schemes, or parts thereof.\u00a0 For example, here is his treatment of Sec. 107 of the Copyright Act:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/92chap1.html#107\"><font color=\"#716e6c\">107<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite all of these rights<br \/>\nAll people can reproduce<br \/>\nTo report, criticise, or teach<br \/>\nBecause that is fair use<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While that is a reasonable summary, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/23\/whaddayaknow-about-fair-use-and-copyright\/\">go here<\/a> for a few extra resources on the complex topic of Fair Use and Copyright. 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