Hey! I'm a SEER!

[heidit at netbox.com]

I had a very weird yesterday. Ytesterday, the Supreme Court ruled for 
the plaintiffs in the Tasini case, which involves media companies 
taking articles written by freelancers and including them in 
electronic databases like NEXIS.

As some of you know, when I graduated law school, I worked for the 
New York Times' Electronic Media Company, writing and negotiating 
contracts between the Times companies and their freelancers.

Flashback-

In 9th grade, we had to write papers for English class about what we 
wanted to be when we grew up (I know!) and I wrote about being a 
lawyer. The style of the paper was to write an "alumni notice" for 
the (nonexistant) school newsletter from the perspective of ten years 
later.

I wrote that after law school, I did media law and the first case I 
worked on had just been ruled (in my client's favor) by the Supreme 
Court.

Of course, I wrote that I was repping People magazine, and I was 
wrong about the whole "ruling in my favor thing", and I was also 3 
years off....but I still remember that they teacher wrote that it was 
impossible for someone's first project out of law school to go before 
the Supreme Court.

Oh well.......