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Courtroom Drama Film Revives 146-Year-Old Legal Questions
By Richard Amada on Apr 25, 2011 | In Performing Arts, Cinema, TV, Radio
Over the course of 2002-2005, I researched and wrote a play, titled The Judicial Murder of Mrs. Surratt, in which I dramatized the trial of Mary Surratt, a woman implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman judicially executed b… more »
Upstate N.Y. Village Repeals Public Art Ban
By Richard Amada on Apr 20, 2011 | In Visual Arts
It was supposed to be only a six-month moratorium, but it was enough for artist Melanie Gold to file a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court against the upstate New York village of Greenwood Lake. According to a Times Herald-Record newspaper article,… more »
"You Have the Right to Remain Copyrighted..."
By Richard Amada on Apr 15, 2011 | In General
I was watching the TV show, Monk, the other night, and there was a scene in which a police lieutenant got miffed with his captain because, as the lieutenant saw it, the captain gave credit to another person for the very same crime theory the lieutenant h… more »
Let It Be...Published
By Richard Amada on Apr 8, 2011 | In Literary
Correspondence written by musical legend John Lennon during his lifetime is going to be published in a new book. Actually, on a more technical level, it's a republishing of the letters. You see, the way the law views it, simply composing and mailing a… more »
