Day 109 – Implied Licenses and Outlaw Justice
- mainemoviepirate
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Original Entry: Saturday, 10/09/21
Morning:Â Slept okay. Dreamed. Up at 6:45. HLR drink, Meds. In Library.
The Idea: Thinking about a business idea—hiring paralegals/students for inmates. A bridge for those trying to prove innocence or reduce time.
The Rumor:Â Heard a group at Devens tried this and got "shut down" by the system. Need to dig into why.
Legal:Â Thinking about the trial. The Kunaki letter. Implied License. Why didn't my lawyer push back on Moore?
Lunch:Â Hamburger/Cheeseburger. I took the burger, roll, and some salad.
Evening:Â Outside for the sunset. The birds were active again.
Media:Â The Town, Inception.
Four Years Later: The Retrospective
Two major themes collide in this entry: the legal technicality that helped sink me, and the spark of a business idea that the system desperately wants to extinguish.
During my trial, the AUSA, Mr. Moore, hammered me on a letter I sent to Kunaki (at the behest of DHS). He claimed I lied when I said I had "permission" to distribute those orphan work movies. I tried to explain Implied License—the idea that under Fair Use and Kunaki’s own terms, the right to distribute was implied by law. But the second I started talking about the nuances of Copyright, Moore shut me down. He didn't want a legal debate; he wanted to call me a thief and a liar.
To this day, it baffles me that my attorney sat there silent. Whether he was out of his league or—as I’m currently investigating—compromised by a conflict of interest, his silence was a life sentence.
That frustration fueled the "Business Idea." I saw then (and see now) that pursuing justice from the inside is a rigged game. Inmates have the time, but the system denies them the reach. I wanted to build a bridge: a firm of paralegals and students acting as an outside contact for the forgotten. Hearing that a similar group at Devens was "shut down" didn't discourage me—it confirmed the necessity. If the system fears a facilitated path to justice, then that path is exactly what needs to be built.
