Death To All Hobbits!

Multi-award-winning author Mal Peet joins us for this special show: Mal’s off to New Zealand to teach a three-month creative writing workshop at the University of Wellington: before he visits the Land Of The Long White Cloud, he’s here to share his thoughts about this week’s topics… and also about hobbits (warning: Tolkien fans take cover!).

Today’s topics include:

• Prince George’s considers taking ownership of students’ work
• Associations Can’t Fight Copyright Claims on Behalf of Their Members
• Judge Clears Penguin of Negligence in Publishing Account of Illicit Affair
• Iowa and Minnesota Supreme Courts decide closely watched libel cases
• Lawsuit Threatened by Attorney Representing Author and Publisher of ‘The Harbinger’
• Knopf U.S. investigating publishing Scientology tell-all in Canada
• Broadway bosses stuck in tangled web of Spider-Man musical lawsuit
• Pentagon Relaxes Censorship of Afghan War Memoir
• Mortenson to seek dismissal of suit claiming he lied in books

Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox.

Picture by Tim Cuff