tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post114079181270349866..comments2024-03-15T11:42:21.265-04:00Comments on The Patry Copyright Blog: Insurance PoliciesWilliam Patryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-85380230174165782752008-05-03T18:05:00.000-04:002008-05-03T18:05:00.000-04:00>>The banality of corporate evil has never been mo...>>The banality of corporate evil has never been more evil or banal.<<<BR/>Here with this expression I completely agree and I support your opinion.<BR/>William, Thanks for posting this. <BR/>My site <A HREF="http://voluntary-insurance.onlinebiznes.com/index.htm" REL="nofollow">insurance</A>Alexiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16124517799154124073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1145582592669640412006-04-20T21:23:00.000-04:002006-04-20T21:23:00.000-04:00there was a fair use defense asserted, though it s...there was a fair use defense asserted, though it seems pretty meritless to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1141143741045004062006-02-28T11:22:00.000-05:002006-02-28T11:22:00.000-05:00Fred:I haven't seen the answer, but there was no d...Fred:<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen the answer, but there was no discussion of it in the opinion. On the health insurance company versus lawyer issue, it was insurance company lawyers who did the drafting.William Patryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1141085521199937582006-02-27T19:12:00.000-05:002006-02-27T19:12:00.000-05:00Having gotten my start in insurance defense, I'm n...Having gotten my start in insurance defense, I'm not prepared to disagree with your opening paragraph. But, I can imagine a claims adjuster somewhere writing something like this on his blog:<BR/><BR/>"If there is one type of [professional] does not deserve the profits [they have], much less increased ones, it is [lawyers]."<BR/><BR/>We're not terribly popular with insurance companies either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1141081888457379062006-02-27T18:11:00.000-05:002006-02-27T18:11:00.000-05:00This again raises the question regarding whether a...This again raises the question regarding whether a statutory monopoly is necessary to create adequate incentives for the production of this "creative" work. After all, presumably insurance companies have plenty of incentive to pay people to clearly describe their policies, both in order to compete and to prevent subsequent suits over scope of coverage. <BR/><BR/>Seems like another case where a court was motivated by an ill-placed distaste for "free riding," rather than by sound copyright policy.<BR/><BR/>Was there a fair use defense asserted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1141065310635004022006-02-27T13:35:00.000-05:002006-02-27T13:35:00.000-05:00Dear Goat, George Orwell couldn't have put it bett...Dear Goat, George Orwell couldn't have put it better.William Patryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1141064398253485532006-02-27T13:19:00.000-05:002006-02-27T13:19:00.000-05:00If insurance policies were negotiable documents or...If insurance policies were negotiable documents or even documents produced as a result of negotiated terms, then a copyright claim would likely involve joint authorship and muck up the corporate greed behind this lawsuit. <BR/><BR/>How can a consumer ever ask another competing company for the same coverage if the definitions of that coverage cannot be transposed to another document? These companies were so busy fighting among themselves, that argument seemed to have been lost. Shouldn't state insurance commissions as a regulatory matter prevent these companies from claiming copyright in these circumstances, particualrly when so much of the policy is dictated by those regulators and subject to their editorial review?<BR/><BR/>We should all resent the court time taken up by this duck and the time taken from a Federal District Judge with better things to do for the world than to spend 45 pages parsing out what language in an insurance policy is original quacking instead of old bleats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com