A social psychologist-turned-lawyer learned of his death through an entry at the Wikia.com site on psychology.Zick Rubin died in 1997, according to the website. Rubin begged to differ. “To the very best of my knowledge, I wasn’t dead,” the publishing and copyright lawyer writes for the New York Times.Rubin tried to correct the entry—twice—and both times the entry reverted to its original form. “Apparently the site had its doubts about some lawyer in Boston tinkering with the facts about American psychologists,” he says.Rubin then spoke to the site’s co-founder—twice—before the site was corrected. Wikia.com had based its information on an incorrect listing in a dictionary of psychology.Rubin sees parallels to fiction: “The situation reminded me of my favorite children’s book—The Bear That Wasn’t, by Frank Tashlin—in which a factory is built around a bear while he is hibernating. When the bear wakes … [Read more...] about Copyright Lawyer Kept Getting Killed Off by Wikia.com
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‘Please don’t make us call your mom,’ Netflix tells pop-up bar owners in cease-and-desist letter
A Netflix lawyer took a humorous approach when he sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owners of a pop-up bar in Chicago.“Please don’t make us call your mom,” says the cease-and-desist letter written by Bryce Coughlin, director and senior counsel for content and brand IP at Netflix. Publications covering the story involving the letter include DNAInfo and the Chicago Tribune.The bar is named The Upside Down and its theme is based on Netflix’s Stranger Things science-fiction show, starring Winona Ryder. Set in a fictional Indiana town in the 1980s, the show is about a vanishing boy, secret lab experiments by a researcher named Dr. Martin Brenner, and supernatural forces, according to Netflix’s official website and Wikia pages here, here and here. In his research, Brenner discovered a gate to an alternate dimension called the Upside Down and unleashed a monster nicknamed the Demogorgon.The letter reads:“My walkie talkie is busted so I had to write this … [Read more...] about ‘Please don’t make us call your mom,’ Netflix tells pop-up bar owners in cease-and-desist letter