Michael Popak
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241 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Michael Popak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The judge said, I think it's futile that you're never going to be able to make the allegations necessary because the copyright law
Is
Is both a shield and a sword here.
What I mean by that is this.
Donald Trump claims that he owns it under the copyright act.
The Copyright Act does apply to everything that is in dispute in the case, which means all of Donald Trump's other claims for contract breach or quantum merrowit or unjust enrichment fall by the wayside because the big fat copyright act stamps them out.
And so the judge is like, I don't see how you get around the copyright act, and you are not an owner.
I'll give you one more shot.
I'll give you one more month to do it.
He's going to lose, he's going to lose at the second circuit, and Simon and Schuster is gonna be able to keep their fifty million dollars.
One little twist Easter egg here.
Right before Donald Trump s filed its case.
Simon and Schuster used to be owned by Paramount, which owns CBS, and they sold to a hedge fund.
If Simon and Schuster was still owned by Paramount, they would have cut a deal in this case, just like they cut a deal about sixty minutes and paid tens of millions of dollars in order to bless that transaction.
But just completely out just just dumb luck.
They sold it and so and KKR doesn't the owner of the uh Simon Schuster has is no love loss between the owners of KKR and Trump and so they're not settling.
I and and not just domestically in lawsuits, internationally.
I was away for a couple of weeks, although hopefully people didn't realize that, as much video content as I made while I was away.
Our our co-producer said.
He looked at some of our numbers.
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