[blackdog]

Since I paid him his wages in order to accumulate all his material, what say he just gives a speech on the senate floor, reading his manuscript instead?

Intellectual property rights dictate that he was on my payroll while accumulating this intellectual knowlege(as was his entire senate staff), therefore it's not his property to sell.

As a matter of fact except for any classified information he held, he should be required to tell us every detail of every encounter and meeting he ever held. That's the relationship that an employer shares with his or her boss.

The next time my boss asks me just what happened over business matters, I'll just tell him that he'll have to wait for my book.

EFFU Trent Lott!

[lawgirl]

Blackdog,

I don't think I agree with you. I mean, what kind of "intellectual property" is a politician accumulating? I am not sure that "how the Congress works" would be defined as intellectual property and that's seems to be the only thing outside his own rememberances that Lott is going to be talking about. It's not an unique idea, etc. From my limited education on IP, I think of IP loosely as something copyrightable or one-of-a-kind you developed or have, such as a computer code, or patented item, or even your own image. A politician's experience is mostly speeches he's written himself and personal discussion. That is how politics works-talking to other people and making deals, making speeches, (going on junkets LOL) etc.

I guess my point is that during all those years in Congress, Lott never gained any intellectual property for us to own- just personal experiences. I am not a fan of Lott either, but I do think he has the right to publish his own memories as his own.

That said, I know nothing of the Chief Moose you mentioned.

[KCmark]

We can't get them to release the Reagan papers. Quit voting for these people please; we will win in the long run.