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Life Updates & Ridiculous Fic Ideas
Aug. 7th, 2022 01:57 pmI finished my internship on Friday; it was an amazing couple of months! I was lucky enough to be given more responsibility than is typical for law student internships, and I learned so much from the experience. Looking back to my first day, I was terrified to stand on an arraignment, even one where we weren't asking for bail; just a few weeks later, I conducted an entire Sex Offender Registration Act hearing myself!
The internship was wonderful, but I'm going to enjoy having a little more free time between now and the start of school at the end of the month. It won't be 100% vacation – it's job application season, and I also have work to do for the journal I'm on – but compared to 40+ hours/week, it feels like I have buckets of time to relax. I'm also tremendously excited because my best friend is coming to visit me in just a couple of days! The biggest downside of living in NYC is that I miss my West Coast friends like crazy, so I've been desperately looking forward to this.
I'm also so excited to have more time for fic! First things first, I have to kick things into gear for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tolkienrsb. I also have a couple of other ideas I'm hoping to work on this month, including a fairly ridiculous MDZS fic about copyright law:
I saw this prompt over atmdzskinkmeme exactly one week after my copyright exam, and I pretty much have no choice but to fill it! I've been doing some thinking about what common law copyright principles would develop in ancient fantasy China, and also how I could make it funny. I'm thinking copyright for talismans and arrays would be fairly similar to how copyright in software is treated under U.S. law – which also gives me a great chance to make a pun about Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc., 516 U.S. 233 (1996), which is a landmark software copyright case. (Admittedly, the pun would probably only be funny to me.)
It should surprise no one that "Crack Treated Seriously" is one of my favorite tags!
The internship was wonderful, but I'm going to enjoy having a little more free time between now and the start of school at the end of the month. It won't be 100% vacation – it's job application season, and I also have work to do for the journal I'm on – but compared to 40+ hours/week, it feels like I have buckets of time to relax. I'm also tremendously excited because my best friend is coming to visit me in just a couple of days! The biggest downside of living in NYC is that I miss my West Coast friends like crazy, so I've been desperately looking forward to this.
I'm also so excited to have more time for fic! First things first, I have to kick things into gear for
tolkienrsb. I also have a couple of other ideas I'm hoping to work on this month, including a fairly ridiculous MDZS fic about copyright law: I saw this prompt over at
mdzskinkmeme exactly one week after my copyright exam, and I pretty much have no choice but to fill it! I've been doing some thinking about what common law copyright principles would develop in ancient fantasy China, and also how I could make it funny. I'm thinking copyright for talismans and arrays would be fairly similar to how copyright in software is treated under U.S. law – which also gives me a great chance to make a pun about Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc., 516 U.S. 233 (1996), which is a landmark software copyright case. (Admittedly, the pun would probably only be funny to me.) It should surprise no one that "Crack Treated Seriously" is one of my favorite tags!
