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Software piracy and the Doris Day Syndrome: some legal, ethical and social implications of contemporary conceptions of property J Couser

See, e.g., Doris Day Animal Foundation, The Violence Connection 3 (1997) [hereinafter Doris Day]; Charlotte A. Lacroix, Another Weapon for Combating Family Violence: Prevention of Animal Abuse, 4 Animal L. 1, 6 (1998).

Ethics for entertainment lawyers There is a Doris Day article of Law: this refers to ethical  client/lawyer relationship check this

Doris Day’s Constitution, 46 Wayne State University Law Review (2000) Richard Saphire University of Dayton School of Law

Perkiness a prerequisite?” (bias suit says employer wanted workers to look like “Doris Day or the boy next door”), Nov. 2, 1999Archived workplace items, pre-July 2003 Overlawyered Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Doris Day Needed the Protection of Law

We move from Mad Max, robots, and Terminators to Doris Day. How can there possibly be any relationship? In the movie It Happened to Jane (1959), Doris Day, a businesswoman and widow with two children, has her shipment of lobsters spoiled through the negligence of the railroad. She wants restitution for the wrong done to her. The railroad offers her $750, the cost of her product. She refuses. She tells the railroad’s lawyers that she lost more than just the lobsters, she lost future business. She wants multiple restitution, and she will use every legal means at her disposal to get what she believes is owed to her.

Jane lives in a world where justice is not “a role of the dice, a flip of a coin, the turn of the wheel.” The law is real, and she insists that it apply to everyone equally. Her world, her moral world, is a far cry from the barren wasteland of Bartertown and the uncertain future of I, Robot. Her antagonist, played by cigar-chomping Ernie Kovaks, would adapt well to the moral ruthlessness of Bartertown. Like Aunty Entity, he plots from his train-motif throne room on ways to hinder Jane’s attempts to secure justice. At first, his lawyers do his bidding. But one by one, they desert him after they see how he bent the law to fit his unjustified ends. They finally awake from their moral slumber to embrace a view of law that they learned from parents, a law that has meaning. Law school and riches of life corrupted them, but they find their way back from the abyss of moral indifference. Even Bartertown Had Laws
By Gary DeMar

1. J. B. S. Haldane, The Inequality of Man (1937) 157. Quoted in Ric Machuga, In Defense of the Soul: What it Means to Be Human (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Books, 2002), 189, note 19.

2. Robert H. Bork, “Preface,” in Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, [1983], 1993), xviii.