95 Quotes by David Boies

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    This is the first case that I am aware of where, in a ballot contest, the court has refused to look at any ballot,

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    This case raises important questions of how the copyright laws are to be applied to this new medium,

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    They're talking about meetings that took place at other times -- we're not saying that they engaged in market divisions every time they talked,

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    They placed on the plaintiffs the burden of first coming forward and identifying a work that they had a copyright in, and second demonstrating that it was listed on the Napster index that is available through Napster. Because the court of appeals -- we think -- properly put that burden on the plaintiffs, we have begun by dealing with those files where the plaintiffs have met that burden.

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    Absolutely your honor. In Sony, the court found that sports programming was a significant non-infringing use and that was 7.3 percent of all of the uses of the Betamax. They talked about the significance of one movie that was uncopyrighted,'My Man Godfrey.' They talked about one television show, 'Mister Rogers,' and that was significant.

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    It probably will not be until tonight that we have a complete view of what has happened and a complete understanding of what the nature of our contest will be.

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    It's an opportunity to relax and talk with the people you do business with. That's always productive.

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    It's clear that what is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.

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