Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 88 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Privilege of Irony
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.05.2014
COULTON CROSS
Preston gives Will no small amount of shit about keeping it together this time, and starts the cross-examination. It seems like a no-go from the top, though:
Preston: "Do you remember where you were the last week of July, 2012?"
Rowby: "Nope. Do you?"
Preston: "I mean, it was close to the anniversary of your..."
Rowby: "Do you remember where you were fifty-one weeks after your dad died? No, because that's crazy talk. Right?"
Preston: "Okay but did you know you were on the studio lot where they shoot Glee?"
Rowby: "Huh. Okay, sure. I was a session musician for a commercial, yeah."
Preston: "On the lot where Ryan Murphy makes his show. Which happens to share a kitchenette with the studio where you were doing that."
F/A objects that this is innuendo unless they can prove the song was being recorded that day -- which they can't, since Rowby is right about what happened -- but Will doesn't care about that: All he needs is to prove access, he says, which doesn't make a shitload of sense but does bring us back around to who has the derivative copyright. And that, true to his reputation, is all Judge Marx can consider: This paperwork exists to solve this problem, this exact problem, and Manager Murray dropped the ball. Everything else is just ideas about maybe.
Marx: "So here's the deal, and I'm sorry, but your YouTube song was an unauthorized derivative artwork, and isn't protected. And -- again, this sucks and I realize that -- you are in the bizarre situation of Ryan Murphy's theft being legal. They have the derivative copyright, you do not. Motion denied, bring on the awful Preston suit."
JENNA
Wants to talk about Katy Perry, for some reason, but Kalinda doesn't know what a Katy Perry is, so Jenna sings "Roar" into her butt for awhile -- it's sexier than it sounds -- and then takes a call from a mystery person who may or may not be her mother or Damian but for sure sets all of Kalinda's most Kalinda nerves alight.
ROWBY
Alicia: "We are not fucking letting them win."
Cary: "I have an idea but I don't want to lead you there, so I'm going to ask weird questions. Number one, this was a joke?"
Rowby: "Yeah, like because of Rick Astley and of butts."
Cary: "But why is that funny? This is about legal stuff, so let's be specific."
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