[an amused spectator]

As a result, one of the great Christmas films of all time is once again protected by the law -- ironic, considering that it became a classic in significant part because it was legally unprotected. But God works in mysterious ways -- and sometimes the law does, too.

I'll never understand lawyer "logic" - other than the only way to sort it out is with a street sweeper and a drum magazine.

I can't figure out if he thinks it's a good thing that they managed to twist the law into a pretzel to get what they wanted. If the dog-in-the-manger types had had their way, the movie's unremembered and unmourned silver nitrate prints would be rotting in a backlot warehouse somewhere, and all our lives would be a little bit poorer.

I guess that Scrooge would be a lawyer in a new Dickens' America...

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, Dickens took some very good shots at lawyers in Bleak House. Especially the opening, where his description of the fog is crowned by the Lord Chancellor!

Ask almost any lawyer about Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, and they will know exactly what you're talking about.

Anthony Trollope also skewered the lawyers, especially in Orley Farm.