The Eleventh Circuit has an indirect connection with the current presidential race: Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine served as a law clerk to Senior Judge Lanier Anderson in 1983-84 in Macon.
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The Turtles and Sirius XM Radio: Not So “Happy Together” as Eleventh Circuit Certifies Questions of Common Law Copyright to Supreme Court of Florida
In a June 29, 2016 opinion, the Eleventh Circuit examined the question of whether common law copyright under Florida law protects sound recordings fixed prior to February 15, 1972. The opinion in Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 2016 WL 3546433 (11th Cir. June 29, 2016), written by Judge R. Lanier Anderson…