> A short story placed in the 'near future' where people receive emails from lawyers about copyright infringement where settlement of a few cents is offered and can be paid right from the email.
I've read that story and think it was by either Cory Doctorow or Charles Stross.
There is automated high-volume litigation as a plot point in Stross's Accelerando, but I think that's not the story that you're thinking of.
I think the one you're thinking of features a little girl being sued for benefiting from colonial-era crimes in the Belgian Congo (among other micro-lawsuits).
I think the one you're thinking of features a little girl being sued for benefiting from colonial-era crimes in the Belgian Congo (among other micro-lawsuits).
I've read the story you're talking about, and its definitely by Doctorow, but I googled around for a while without any luck, as well as searching some of the short story collections. I'd be interested if anybody could remember it!
Definitely the same story I was thinking about. Maybe Doctorow linked it somewhere? It certainly sits very squarely at the center of his interests in law, copyright, privacy, fatherhood and spec fic. Thanks!
I've read that story and think it was by either Cory Doctorow or Charles Stross.
There is automated high-volume litigation as a plot point in Stross's Accelerando, but I think that's not the story that you're thinking of.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
I think the one you're thinking of features a little girl being sued for benefiting from colonial-era crimes in the Belgian Congo (among other micro-lawsuits).