{"id":445,"date":"2006-10-13T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2006-10-13T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T19:11:48","slug":"best-footnote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/10\/13\/best-footnote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Footnote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve you&#8217;ve ever read legal scholarship &#8212; heaven help you &#8212; you&#8217;ll know that law review articles are heavily laden with footnotes.  Nearly every sentence requires a footnote, and the collective verbiage of the footnotes sometimes outweighs the article&#8217;s main body.  Anyway, I stumbled across this today, in Rosemary J. Coombe, <em>Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics:  Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue<\/em>, 69 Tex. L. Rev. 1853 (1991), a clever postmodern critique of the notion of &#8220;authorship&#8221; in copyright law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will also cease to cite endless reerences in incessant footnotes,[FN22] as if an abundance of small typeface enabled us to &#8216;speak in the name of the real.'[FN23]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[FN 22]  Well, at least I&#8217;ll try.<br \/>\n[FN 23] I have appropriated this phrase from Paul Stoller, who borrowed it from Ivan Brady, who appropriated it from Michel de Certeau, who discusing reading and writing as textual poaching in &#8220;The Practice of Everyday Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve you&#8217;ve ever read legal scholarship &#8212; heaven help you &#8212; you&#8217;ll know that law review articles are heavily laden with footnotes. Nearly every sentence requires a footnote, and the collective verbiage of the footnotes sometimes outweighs the article&#8217;s main body. Anyway, I stumbled across this today, in Rosemary J. Coombe, Objects of Property and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}