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Just to get a jump on wikipedia or whatnot, and to help elfwreck in her awesomesauce plans to spreadsheet organize the case docs, I thought we might start a list of (a) media coverage. Also helpful, the (b) dramatis personae, as some folks have already gotten some of the names confused. The following are mainly sites and sources I've been reading, but hardly the only ones. In addition, many newspapers around the globe this week have run the AP stories with variations and, often, additions. Some particular versions have more interesting bits than others.

Please link other helpful sources, news and blogs and what have you - and oh yes, more on the people! -in the comments, and we'll get it run into this post. TIA!

Elfwreck's going to take a whack at the big task of compiling a list of what all those legal documents *are* ezzackly, what each covers, and where the sugarplums are tucked in. Some of the topics that this case revolves around that are of interest to fandom:

1. the concepts and applications of copyright, fair use, etc., in play;
2. how this case uses, critiques, and/or extends concepts of authorship in literary theory and culture;
3. logic, illogic, and fallacies in arguments in and around the case;
4. implications (real and feared) for fandom - which thankfully, has not been the usual butt of jokes from the mainstream this time around (nobody laughs when a billionaire is in the courtroom!);
5. discourse analysis - who's using language in interesting, powerful, colorful or political ways? and on the fine-grained end, how do we define lexicon, index, dictionary, encyclopedia, guidebook, etc.?
6. people! cool clothes! bad hair! and all that other stuff that makes the *story*. Becuz, it's always about the story!

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