Catch up on last week’s happenings in the legal world:
- China recognized a wrongful conviction and acquitted a man in prison for murder after eight years there. This is giving some advocates and scholars a cautious optimism that the Chinese judiciary is moving forward (AP)
- A Utah man was charged with vandalizing graffiti with graffiti, i.e. he vandalized Banksy (WSJ Law Blog)
- Copyright regulator’s weigh in: pictures taken by monkeys, or, for that matter, any animal, plant, or biota other than a homo sapien, do not gain copyright protection (even if the monkey used your camera) (Ars Technica)
- “Dentist Auctions Off 12-Year-Old Unpaid Judgment Against Kim Kardashian” on website that is like the eBay of unpaid judgments (WSJ Law Blog)
